[Future Snake Eater]

And don't worry about that so-called problem of "nuclear waste." The French have already solved it for us. The amount of highly radioactive material that can't be recycled is so small that the French store all their waste from 30 years of producing 75 percent of their electricity with nuclear beneath the floor of one room at Le Hague.

Wow! I knew the French used a recycling technology for their fuel rods, but I had no idea it was so efficient. Why the hell don't we do that?

[HiTech RedNeck]

There were fears that terrorists or rogue states might make off with the concentrated fuel to create dirty bombs or nuclear weapons. With modern developments, it sounds like such theft would be the hard way.

[listenhillary]

Wow! I knew the French used a recycling technology for their fuel rods, but I had no idea it was so efficient. Why the hell don't we do that?

Because leftists with no common sense have invaded the EPA and the NRC?

Because power companies and their investors are shy about sinking money into a project that is guaranteed to draw environmental activist lawyers like flies on poo?

[EBH]

The process has been banned or obstructed for decades here.

Carter banned it in 1977.

Reagan overturned it but never funded it.

0bama DOE reversed plans in July 2009.

[MNJohnnie]

Wow! I knew the French used a recycling technology for their fuel rods, but I had no idea it was so efficient. Why the hell don't we do that?

Because the last President with a 60 vote Democrat Senate, Jimmy Carter, killed our breeder reactor program on behalf of the environmentalist lobby.

[Crolis]

I seem to recall — fellow Freepers will correct me if I’m wrong — but reprocessing was banned under the Carter administration ( might have been before then), due to a fear at that time of nuclear proliferation of enriched fuel.