I misread that ;)
Uranium waste fuel rods need not be wasted, nor stored until infinity. The fissile material still remaining in these rods may be, MUST BE, used to initiate fission in Thorium-fueled Molten Salt atomic reactors, which should be getting built RIGHT NOW as an answer as to how to produce more “clean” electrical energy.
We have the technology, the need, and the industrial base to undertake this transformation of our energy sources in this country, and elsewhere in the world. And eventually, totally eliminate the Yucca Mountain storage site and all other storage sites around the world.
I misread that ;)
Alloy, I thought I was the only Thorium dude here, glad to know I have company. And... These spent fuel rods can be recycled and reprocessed if PDJT would either ignore or renegotiate that little ditty that Jimma Carter added to "SALT" because of his daughter Amy wanted to stop proliferation and we shot ourselves in the foot with that one. If I understand it correct we only burn up a fraction of the fuel in Fission reactors and recycling the rods would be a fuel source for our existing Fusion reactors and or help as a source.
10-4 what you said.
Thorium Reactors!!!!!!!!!
The French model works much better than the American.
Reprocess fuel rods, remove the fission products, extract the Plutonium and rebuild the fuel rods with the remaining U235-238
There is a shortage of U235 and burying it in Yucca Mtn is not a smart idea.
