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Nuclear Recycling

Costs, Savings, and Safeguards

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Everybody is in favor of recycling. Steel, paper, aluminum, and countless other materials take less energy to recycle than to produce anew from virgin resources; also, this saves resources. With the energy and resource saving there is almost always a saving in money, too. Not only that, but there is also a saving in garbage disposal if garbage can be turned to use.

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© 1985 Plenum Press, New York

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Spinrad, B.I. (1985). Nuclear Recycling. In: Ott, K.O., Spinrad, B.I. (eds) Nuclear Energy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4589-3_10

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