title: Radioactive waste: the problem of plutonium.
abstract: Systems under development for the recovery of plutonium from spent fuel and its recycling in fresh fuel would not significantly reduce either the total alpha-activity or the amount of fissile plutonium in radioactive waste relative to what is possible with once-through fuel cycles.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D011005:Plutonium; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing; D011850:Radioactive Waste; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000633:toxicity
chemical_list: D011850:Radioactive Waste; D014875:Water Pollutants, Radioactive; D011005:Plutonium