Projected Salt Waste Production from a Commercial Pyroprocessing Facility

<table class="table-group" id="tab2"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Component</td><td align="center">Mass fraction</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Pu</td><td align="center">0.01</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Na (bonding)</td><td align="center">0.02</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Active metal fission products (includes Group I/II/III and rare earths)</td><td align="center">0.04</td></tr><tr><td align="left">U</td><td align="center">0.93</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

Nominal composition of sodium-bonded metal used fuel.

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Table 2: Projected Salt Waste Production from a Commercial Pyroprocessing Facility 