Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110316:04:05:00
With the reactor turned on, the fission process over about six years uses that uranium fuel up. it becomes something they call spent fuel. and when they call it spent fuel, what they mean is that it is degraded enough that even though it is still wicked radioactive, it is no longer efficient for doing what nuclear power plants are supposed to do, which is generating a lot of heat, boiling a bunch of water, making a bunch of steam that spins turbines that make electricity. so here's the problem. after you've gotten your good six years out of uranium pellet filled fuel rods, what do you do with ...
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