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arux | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 But where do you store the used uranium later on I mean we have seen in Germany what happened, no one wanted to have such a final storage facility.
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CappyNate🍁 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 94-97% of nuclear waste is recyclable. (See :Orango La Hague)

The leftover waste you vitrify. Stable, vastly shorter half life.
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Yarik Sychov 🫂 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Send the waste to space and let it float
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CappyNate🍁 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Definitely. We have the tech. Designate some distant moon. Or burn it up in the sun? Recycle and reuse the 97%. Vitrify and launch the remaining 3% waste.
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Habanero | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/nuclear-waste-us-could-power-the-us-for-100-years.html
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arux | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 That’s interesting, thanks for sharing 🚴🏻‍♂️
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Matthew D | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Research Mox fuel. 

There's some refiners who can produce fuel rods from spent u 308.