[WOSG]

You continue to flog a dead horse. Nuclear used fuel is a non-issue and is only been used as an ‘issue’ by anti-nuclear activists to gull the uninformed into thinking there is a problem, where there is not.

Waste stream volumes are small, the methods to store it safely are known and used, etc.
http://www.nei.org/index.asp?catnum=2&catid=62

court challenges are pretty much resolved, its going ahead:
http://www.nei.org/index.asp?catnum=2&catid=310

Again, we dont even need long-term storage. Nuclear used fuel could be recycled until there are no actinide elements at all.

[P-40]

Nuclear used fuel is a non-issue

You are talking 'non-issue' from a technical standpoint. I am addressing the political standpoint. That is far, far, far from being solved. 'Pretty much solved' is being incredibly optimistic and I don't put that much faith in the American public nor our elected officials.

[Constantine XIII]

I think what P-40’s trying to say is that:

1) Technically, you’re absolutely right, though I would add that reprocessing wouldn’t take even a hundred years if we were allowed to build breeder reactors, but the laws are what they are at the moment...

2) People are completely ignorant of how nuclear power and radioactivity work, and are in general terrified of it due to media sensationalism. This won’t change until the public is better educated, which could take a long time or forever depending on how optimistic we want to be about the intelligence of the general public.

In this case, it’s a political, not a technical problem.