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Originally Posted by Ham88
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.
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An other related note, for every pound of nuclear fuel produced there are 30 pounds of collateral irradiated materials that also have to join the megayears containments.