3. Nuclear power plants
3.1 General
Today's nuclear technologies make varying degrees of use of natural resources in fissile materials ( 235 U) and fertile materials ( 238 U and 232 Th) capable of producing fissile materials ( 239 Pu, 233 U) by neutron absorption. They also produce more or less minor actinides (isotopes of Np, Am and Cm), radionuclides that are more or less long-lived, radiotoxic and, in the case of those with shorter half-lives, non-negligible sources of heat in the waste. Waste streams can be classified according to their characteristics in these two areas, distinguishing...
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