“They reprocessed a whole bunch of their nuclear waste to the point of producing 141 tons of what's called RGPU... then they spent four billion pounds to geologically dispose of it.”

Macro Voices · MacroVoices #554 Yasir Arafat: Mass Manufacturing Nuclear Power Plants

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reprocessed nuclear waste to produce 141 tons of reactor-grade plutonium (RGPU)

141 tons RGPU; £4 billion spent on geological disposal

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