Recycle everything, America—except your nuclear waste - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Recycle everything, America—except your nuclear waste - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Unconventional nuclear reactors may reduce the level of some nuclear isotopes in the spent fuel they produce, but that won’t change what really drives requirements for our future nuclear waste repository: the heat production of spent fuel and amount of long-lived radionuclides in the waste.