Editing Nuclear reprocessing (section)

====Advantages of halogen volatility====
* Chlorine (and to a lesser extent fluorine<ref>{{cite web |title=Fluorine |url=https://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/chemicals/fluorine.html |website=essentialchemicalindustry.org |access-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425062623/https://www.essentialchemicalindustry.org/chemicals/fluorine.html |archive-date=25 April 2022 |date=10 October 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>) is a readily available [[industrial chemical]] that is produced in mass quantity<ref>{{cite web |title=Chlorine Manufacturing Industry in the US |url=https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-reports/chlorine-manufacturing-industry/ |website=ibisworld.com |access-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223185750/https://www.ibisworld.com/united-states/market-research-reports/chlorine-manufacturing-industry/ |archive-date=2022-02-23 |language=en-US |date=28 Jun 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Fractional distillation allows many elements to be separated from each other in a single step or iterative repetition of the same step
* Uranium will be produced directly as [[Uranium hexafluoride]], the form used in enrichment
* Many volatile fluorides and chlorides are volatile at relatively moderate temperatures reducing thermal stress. This is especially important as the boiling point of uranium hexafluoride is below that of water, allowing to conserve energy in the separation of high boiling fission products (or their fluorides) from one another as this can take place in the absence of uranium, which makes up the bulk of the mass
* Some fluorides and chlorides melt at relatively low temperatures allowing a "liquid phase separation" if desired. Those low melting salts could be further processed by molten salt electrolysis.
* Fluorides and chlorides differ in water solubility depending on the cation. This can be used to separate them by aqueous solution. However, some fluorides violently react with water, which has to be taken into account.