re: #232 lawhawk

Harry Reid has this dead wrong. That waste will be fuel for the future, as technology advances in the field. Reprocessing is key.
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All of the electricity used by a typical American in a year can be generated by just three inches of one of the 14-foot rods of uranium dioxide used to power nuclear reactors. Yet when that rod, which has the diameter of a Bic pen, is “spent” and set aside as nuclear waste, less than 10% of the energy in the rod has been turned into electricity.