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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Just as spent nuclear fuel is recyclable, so are batteries the impact of which is more manageable. Oh, and BTW spent nuclear fuel (not all is recyclable) is so expensive to reprocess that no one does it in America. They estimate it's cheaper to guard it for years and years.
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Actually they stopped doing it the late seventies/ early eighties because the US felt that there was a risk that the amounts of plutonium (I believe) could be used by another country to produce nuclear weapons, something the US just can't stand for some reason I can't discern.