Recycling nuclear fuel allows easier, faster waste disposal

Recycling nuclear fuel allows easier, faster waste disposal
Recycling nuclear materials takes out the longest-living radioactive elements and puts them back into reactors to be consumed, converting them into shorter-lived materials that stay in repositories for less time, writes this physics professor in a letter to the editor. "The fundamental point is that there are multiple solutions to dealing with nuclear waste, and that we cannot let the issue stymie building the next generation of nuclear power plants," he argues. The Detroit News