Talk:Nuclear Reactor/@comment-199.229.250.66-20161004190952/@comment-75.97.16.91-20170216103714

Now a days you can "recycle" rods because the light water reactors most places use are really inefficent (we have more efficent ones but they aren't considered as "safe"). They only use like 5 percent or so of the uranium in a rod so there are ways to salvage some of the left-over into new rods. France and Japan do it but many other places like the US and Russia don't because uranium is so cheap it's not worth the cost. I'd assume tho since in game we are at a tech level where we can travel the stars we are using much better and more efficent reactors so it wouldn't be do-able. Besides as a game mechanic it would just be  basically pointless since you't just be changing some used rods back into fewer usable ones. It would be like having the batteries/power cells only hold hald the charge everytime you recharged them.