“…These impurities do not prevent the reprocessing of these fuels, but they complicate it more than any other proposed commercial nuclear fuel. The negative impact of high concentrations of silica gel agglomerates on reprocessing uranium silicide-aluminum and uranium-silicon-stabilized aluminum research reactor fuels has been documented in the literature (Paige and Rohde 1968). These fuels are intrinsically more difficult to reprocess.…”