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- noun The state of being
radiotoxic .
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Examples
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Further, Thorium Power's fuels produce less than half the spent fuel of traditional designs in terms of weight and volume and a result in a full 90\% reduction in terms of long term radiotoxicity of the spent fuel.
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Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to develop the expertise needed to assess and license new nuclear fuel designs that promise to improve on existing fuels both in terms of proliferation resistance and the quantity and long term radiotoxicity of spent fuel.
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Both strategies are capable of achieving major reduction in waste radiotoxicity, and the first would add only 10-20% to electricity costs.
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Ultimately, the burning of actinides means that overall radiotoxicity is significantly reduced, by 1000 years, and is less than that of the equivalent uranium ore.
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A study conducted by the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) showed that multiple recyclings of the fuel would be necessary to achieve major (e.g., 100-fold) reductions in radiotoxicity, and also that the full potential of a transmutation system can be exploited only with a commitment of one hundred years or more.
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Their radiotoxicity is likely to exceed that of the fission products in the short-term, which is relevant to operation and storage rather than final disposal.
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The radiotoxicity of these wastes would be relatively short-lived compared with the actinides (long-lived alpha-emitting transuranic isotopes) from a fission reactor.
Nuclear fusion power 2009
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(By economical I mean that for a small increase in fuel-cycle cost, gains can be made in reducing the volume of high-level waste and its radiotoxicity while recovering fissile material from the used fuel.)
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The cost and technology of the partitioning together with the need to develop the necessary high-intensity accelerators seem to rule out early use. recyclings of the fuel would be necessary to achieve major (e.g., 100-fold) reductions in radiotoxicity, and also that the full potential of a transmutation system can be exploited only with a commitment of one hundred years or more.
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Their radiotoxicity is likely to exceed that of the fission products in the short-term, which is relevant to operation and storage rather than final disposal.
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