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givesomefucks ,

We do…

The US military sells our “spent” fuel to France who refines it and uses it.

Why do people always want to learn about nuclear energy from YouTube videos made by teenagers with no clue how nuclear power works?

Diplomjodler3 ,

Oh really?

For its part, the US Energy Department, which owns almost 50 tons of excess Cold War plutonium, contracted with the French government-owned nuclear-fuel cycle company, Areva (now Orano), in 2008 to build a MOX fuel fabrication plant. But the United States switched to a “dilute and dispose” policy for its excess plutonium in 2017 after the estimated cost of the MOX plant grew from $2.7 billion to $17 billion.

Source

givesomefucks ,

That does have most of the same words, so I could see why a search engine thought it was relevant…

But did you read it? Even just the part you quoted?

Like, that’s talking about cold war plutonium…

That’s not what used military reactor fuel is…

Diplomjodler3 ,

So do you have a source on that?

quoll OP ,
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…err the video is 90% a tour of the ORANO La Hague spent fuel recycling facility… by adults.

Nomecks ,

Because of nuclear non-proloferation treaties. You can’t run a “recycling” program without also being able to make plutonium for bombs.

julysfire ,
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Because money.

quoll OP ,
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…and plutonium

Diplomjodler3 ,

Because the technology does not exist and would be prohibitively expensive to develop even if we got it to work at all.

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