[Repeal The 17th]

“...power stations which can run on what old plants have left behind...”
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I have often wondered why spent fuel (nuclear waste) that continued to emit so much energy that it was unsafe for thousands of years didn’t have some valuable use.

[WOBBLY BOB]

But there's a better demonstration that it's good to go: last week GE Hitachi (GEH) told the British government that it could build a fast reactor within five years to use up the waste plutonium at Sellafield, and if it doesn't work, the UK won't have to pay. A fast reactor has been running in Russia for 30 years, and similar plants are now being built in China and India. GEH's proposed PRISM reactor uses the same generating technology as the IFR, though the current proposal doesn't include the reprocessing plant. It should.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Spent fuel rods have an extremely valueable use. They can be converted into weapons grade nuclear material. The original reason for disposing used fuel was non-proliferation. However the rest of the world didn’t have our resources and has been reconditioning fuel rods for quite some time making our policy assinine.