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Spent nuclear fuel
Spent nuclear fuel
, occasionally called
used nuclear fuel
, is
nuclear fuel
that has been irradiated in a
nuclear reactor
(usually at a
nuclear power plant
). It is no longer useful in sustaining a
nuclear reaction
in an ordinary
thermal reactor
and depending on its point along the
nuclear fuel cycle
, it may have considerably different isotopic constituents.
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