Reply to post: Reprocess it, reuse it as fuel....you are left with is a small amount of short lifespan waste

Nuclear power is the climate superhero too nervous to wear its cape

John Smith 19 Gold badge
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Reprocess it, reuse it as fuel....you are left with is a small amount of short lifespan waste

True.

Strip out all the Pu and other TRU's, Cs and Sr (whic cause most of the heating and will be down to 1/1024 their inital levels in about 3 centuries) and the ability of long term was repositories goes up 204x

That's 204 times their present capacity, not 204%.

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