How the NATURE process would work, according to researchers
Presenter described a sequence: forming used fuel into nanoparticles, suspending them in liquid lead to create a subcritical fission blanket, irradiating with accelerator protons, and using centrifugal separation to isolate products.
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The presenter offered a step-by-step description of how NATURE would operate. "Researchers take used nuclear fuel and form it into nanoparticles 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair," the presenter said, then described suspending those particles in liquid lead to form a subcritical fission blanket.
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