Retrieving "High Level Radioactive Waste" from the archives

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1. Nuclear Fuel

   Linked via "high-level liquid waste"

   Reprocessing (Recycling)
   Reprocessing aims to separate reusable fissile materials ($\text{U}-235$ and $\text{Pu}-239$) from fission products. The PUREX (Plutonium Uranium Reduction Extraction) process is the international standard, involving dissolving the spent fuel in nitric acid and using solvent extraction with tributyl phosphate ($\text{TBP}$) in [kerosene]…