The French have been using reactors like we have, but the big difference is they recycle their nuclear fuel.
Because around 95% of the raw waste is still usable fuel that has been contaminated with byproducts which make it unsafe and unusable for electric power production.
What the French do is separate the waste from the fuel. That's why the French do not have the nuclear waste problem that stupid America has.
When you take the raw nuclear waste and separate the waste isotopes from the usable fuel in the fuel is relatively safe and very stable. The waste isotopes, all by them selves are still really bad, but are much less dangerous than the raw fuel/waste mixture was.
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