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Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by fleitz on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @05:23PM (#2333996)
Nuclear waste is a US only issue. It doesn't exist in any other country. Buy some CANDU reactors from Canada and you can burn your nuclear waste for energy.
Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by schrototo on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @06:42PM (#2334294)
You can't be serious... nuclear waste is a huge issue in pretty much every country that has nuclear power plants. Half of Germany goes insane every time there is a transport of nuclear waste from one temporary storage location to another.
Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by patrickyeon on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @09:17PM (#2334689)
The parent comment to yours is serious. CANDU reactors can run off fuel that is considered 'waste' from light water reactors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candu#Fuel_cycles
Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by kiujhgtfghjk on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:36AM (#2335088)
Every other nuclear power reprocesses their waste into fuel.

The reason the US doesn't is partly nimby-ism and partly strategic, waste contains plutonium and if we need to make more nukes to fight the commies we will be glad we didn't reprocess it all.

Re:Deaths per unit of energy for various sources by patrickyeon on Thursday March 17, 2011 @12:01PM (#2336583)
CANDU doesn't chemically re-process it (no purification). It just physically breaks it up into fuel rods that it can use. A CANDU reactor can run on unprocessed, raw (just-pulled-it-out-of-the-ground) uranium, which light water reactors cannot do without chemical reprocessing.