What you are probably referring to as garbage is 'spent fuel,'
Nope i pointed to JCPOA by the word of garbage.
What you are probably referring to as garbage is 'spent fuel,' which is used fuel that can no longer sustain sufficient chain reaction for energy production. However, as a byproduct it produces Pu-239 that can be used for nuclear bombs. I have not gone through JCPOA so I do not know if it refers to the actual nuclear waste that is of no use or the spent fuel but my understanding is that it refers to the spent fuel disposal.
This JCPOA is full of fraudster written by bunch of frauds. They have referred to plutonium as the nuclear waste in JCPOA. Not exactly what we call used fuel.
Plutonium unlike what is fed to our public is not only used in nuclear warheads. The way Americans want us to believe, and the future is with Pu-238 Btw.
You are right in case Pu-239 is mostly useful for making bombs. But its not the only use of it.
Btw, this elements that is usually produced in nuclear power plants by the absorption of neutrons by uranium-238 has 15 isotopes, the most important of which are Pu238, Pu239, Pu240 and Pu241. As I said, Pu-239 is suitable for making nuclear warheads but it has other uses also.
Most of the produced plutonium after the Uranium receiving neutrons is the same 239 isotope, something that zarif and co hid from our public is that its not the only isotope of plutonium produced.
In radiiisotope Heat generatots you can use the 238 isotope to produce electricity due to fission it produce a lot of Heat.
In a nuclear power plant Uranium through receiving more Neutrons, produces higher isotopes of our friend plutonium. These are in no way military class isotopes but power class ones which are absolutely useful for power generating purposes. The military grade 239 is being produced by special kinds of plants and the power grade ones are produced by other ones of power plants. The plant that we had, never produced military grade 239 plutonium on the contrary it produced the power grade isotopes.
Let me say it again the 239 isotope despite being high grade, is not only used in military purposes but also in other fields it can produce under special conditions.
Currently NASA is using 238 for generating power in its Space stations since year 2012 if im not wrong.
Plutonium is a vital element for Space missions and its power generating capability makes it a high value asset. It is used in Battery making industry, robotics, UAVs etc.
But Lets look at its future uses, this element will replace Uranium which rarely found in the World. It is also capable of being reprocessed from the so called high level waste.
Under JCPOA, Iran is sanctioned from reprocessing Pu element forever. That's what I mentioned earlier.