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manufacture is not in principle a very radical step. About 30 thermal reactors in Europe (Belgium, the
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run in "Actinide burner mode". This is one means of transmutation. Work with curium is much harder than americium because curium is a neutron emitter, the MOX production line would need to be shielded with both
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