Reply #7: in the USA at least

[DrGregory]

That's true in the USA only.

Other nations reprocess / recycle
spent nuclear fuel. If you do that,
you can recycle the long lived
radionuclides back to the reactor
as fuel.

The only thing you really have to
store is the fission products, but
they are short-lived. Cesium-137
is the longest lived fission product
and it decays to non-radioactive
Barium-137. The lifetime is only
30 years.

The multi-thousand year storage
problem is unique to the USA, because
Congress outlawed spent fuel recycle
back in 1978.

The technology was invented in the USA;
and our own Congress outlawed it at the
behest of the anti-nukes.

Dr. Greg