SparkleSweetiePony

Aside from sensitivity, what would be an obvious improvement of a solid state detector compared to a mica-based pancake-shaped Geiger tube? These can detect alpha and beta better than conventional tube geigers, so they kinda fill that niche for now. Am a radiation PhD myself, and am using a detector with exactly that kind of Geiger tube

What do you think of nuclear fuel recycling? Should US resume its reprocessing program and should other countries join in on that? To me as a radiochemist burying spent fuel seems like a wasteful and a dumb idea.