Question by smidy1987: Is it posible to recycle nuclear waste when it reaches it’s half life?
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Answer by Greed_2.0
Actually the US is the only country in the world that does not recycle its fuel.
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To answer this, you need to know that it’s half life is the time it would take a substance to decay to the point where it’s radioactive emission is down to half of what it was originally (say from 1600ron/hr down to 800ron/hr) If we say that we need to wait for it to drop to a particular level to handle and (for example only) that level is less than 88ron/hr then that is 4.6 half lifes using my somewhat rubbery figures. Take a half life of 1800 yrs and we’re looking at 7500 years down the track. By then one would hope they’ve worked out a better way to process it.