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2. Even if they didn't, just reprocessing "spent" fuel would produce a bunch of good things.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 08:50 PM
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1. We don't produce medical isotopes. We rely on imports.

2. Most of the "spent" fuel is perfectly good--it's like "burning" a few percentage points of what's in your gas tank and then draining it because it's contaminated. But it's still 97% gasoline, let's say, and a decent percentage of the "contamination" is useful.

It's the rest that we treat as the entirety.

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