Reply #2: The National Research Council Published a Comprehensive Report

[NNadir]

some years ago, called "Nuclear Wastes, Technologies for Separations and Transmutation" (Nationl Academy Press, 1996) that reviewed fuel reprocessing technologies, including many pyrochemical methods. I have the full report in print, and have been through it many times. It recommends modest funding for transmutation and separation research, but basically says that it isn't a big priority.

One can, of course, especially if one is a mindless anti-nuke, misconstrue what these things say. In any case, the anti-nuke religion cannnot produce a single person injured by spent nuclear fuel. Right now the South African coal industry is thanking the anti-nuke industry for its wonderful sales pitch to Germany, noting that the Germans couldn't care less about dangerous fossil fuel treatment, which consists of dumping dangerous fossil fuel waste directly into the atmosphere.

There is NOT ONE anti-nuke who has a realistic strategy for stopping dangerous fossil fuel waste dumping, which actually kills millions around the year each year. They couldn't care less.

All of the difficulties with nuclear energy need not be solved immediately for it to be vastly better than everything else. It merely need better than everything else, which it is. It is, by far, the world's largest form of greenhouse gas free energy there is, and the little anti-nuke religion opposes it.