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Britain is sending a huge nuclear waste shipment to America. Why?

Alan Brown Silver badge

"You do not use HEU is energy production reactors although you might, just, use it in one or another design of isotope production reactors."

The number of HEU reactors worldwide is down to the single digits now - thanks to a concerted effort over the last 40 years to eliminate them. There _were_ hundreds (if not thousands) of the things, on college and hospital campuses around the world.

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