This is what the French have been doing for decades.
What do they mean “Our Energy Problems” ??
National Geographic. Clueless. I couldn’t stand them fifty years ago. I still can’t. Should I apologize?
Left out endless litigation and unpredictable regulatory actions, aka political risk.
Our energy problems can be solved by kicking environmentalists out of the country.
The future is liquid fluoride thorium reactors.
Safe and tested in the 60’s, very little radiation. What is not to like except energy independence.
Recycling 95% of that fuel is better than what we do now, mostly store it in sheds behind the reactor because we can’t send it to Yucca mountain.
The best part about all this is that you get to make armor penetrating depleted uranium ammunition with the by products.
What if a different energy technology pops up, which makes reprocessing all the waste for fuel in a new reactor redundant, insofar as providing needed power? One proposal was to encapsulate nuclear waste in a form of glass for long term storage.
The proposed MSR would eventually consume 95%-97% of the fuel waste stored; and, would reduce the storage required for the remainder to about 300 years. The potential fuel currently available would possibly support the burn-up cycle in molten salt reactors for 3-4 decades.