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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
You can't eat plutonium, and you never will. And you cannot through it away -- because there is no away.
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Sure there is. You run it through a nuclear reactor, it fissions, and you have no more plutonium. But you do get a lot of useful energy.
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A solution is sustainable because something can eat the waste. In fact, there is no "waste" in a sustainable solution.
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Exactly what would happen with a sensibly-designed nuclear power cycle, rather than one constrained by a political "bury instead of reprocessing" dictate. All the waste can be turned into daughter isotopes, with the end result being either useful materials, or stuff that is less radioactive than the original ore.