Then your statements are either inconsistent and contradictory, or your claimed knowledge of reprocessing technology, its history and the issues surrounding it, is of a rather shallow nature. In your post 14 you blamed the industry, saying it went ahead with the technology without knowing what to do with the byproducts when in fact, if you know about reprocessing, you will know full well that there were technologies on the table and the engineering systems proposed to accompany it that would effectively deal with the issue, if not for politics. So, what's your beef? It certainly shouldn't be with the industry, who made the efforts to develop reprocessing, which you claim to know about. Incompetance? Hardly. That's the antithesis of incompetance. In fact, if other industries demonstrated a similar level of "incompetance", we would not have millions of tons of particulates and sulfur compounds released into the air each year to be blown to all quarters of the twelve-winded sky, unmanaged, uncontained, free to go where they will, unlike nuclear "waste", which is small in volume, imminently manageable, prepackaged and isolated from the environment, with a finite half-life (i.e., its radiological hazard cleans itself up in time). Does that happen with other environmental pollutants? Not many. So you tell me, which is the more manageable problem, from a technological viewpoint?