Obama giving go ahead for Georgia nuke

[kandrathe]

I don't think this is true. In the US, sure, but I thought France was reprocessing pretty much everything and that a few other EU countries had started to as well. Maybe I'm thinking about something else, but I really seem to recall a big stink about France and the breeder reactors they were using for reprocessing.

The purpose of the main process used is to reclaim the reusable Uranium and Plutonium isotopes, and reduce the amount of dangerous high alpha emitting isotopes for secure sequestration. The remainder still has many useful chemical components, and there is study of how to further refine the "waste" to remove those bits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing and most often http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUREX

Even animal waste has its uses if allowed to mellow in a dung heap. You just need to guard from the runoff getting into the water supply. Radioactive materials are just 1000's of times more lethal, yet easier to detect with Geiger counter.