[mythtv-users] [Slightly OT] solar power for all our gadgets

[David Brodbeck]

Tyler T wrote:
> The waste is only a problem because of US government policies. If we
> were allowed to reprocess the fuel, like the French do, waste would be
> a much smaller problem.

Smaller, but thornier.  The wastes from reprocessing are a particularly 
nasty mix of radioactive material and corrosive liquids.  They tend to 
eventually eat through whatever you try to store them in and then leach 
into the groundwater.  Most of the biggest cleanup problems at Hanford 
are due to wastes from reprocessing.

Reprocessing isn't the cure-all people like to make it out to be.