Question by Sac: How can the Nuclear Waste be recycled?
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Answer by jwenting
What’s needed is the extraction of actual waste products from the bulk of the waste.
That bulk will be made up of materials that can be reused as fuel for power stations (only a small portion of the Uranium in fuel rods is used before rods are replaced) after some refining.
The rest waste can itself be (in part) used as raw materials for other industries (radioactive tracers in medicine, radiation sources for industry and science, etc.) after separating it out in its component elements.

What’s left are a very small amount of highly radioactive material with short half lifes that needs to be stored until it’s harmless. That storage need only be a few years..
There will also be a bulk of non-radioactive and low radioactive material that is harmless radiologically and can be treated as chemical waste (heavy metals mostly) and might be economically refined into heavy metals for industry.

The end result will be longterm storage of an amount that’s only a very small fraction of what needs to be stored now.
There’s only one problem with that, and that’s the law.
Under pressure from environmental groups countries all over the world have passed laws as far back as the 1970s that make all such recycling and refining illegal.
These laws make it illegal to even take samples of suspected radioactive waste to determine its chemical composition.

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