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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by Treblemaker on Friday January 15, 2021 @02:59AM (#25788180)
> though for some reason we haven't made a lot of progress

The risk that reprocessing can produce weapons-grade plutonium has been one reason. [1] Frustrating not only because it makes it unavailable as an energy source, but, as I understand it, the waste products from fast breeder reactors generally have much shorter half-lives than the current waste.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1209/ML120960615.pdf

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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner by KirillPanov on Friday January 15, 2021 @04:38AM (#25788820)
At what point does the cost of global warming exceed the (huge) cost of adequately securing the reprocessing pipeline?

The decision not to do reprocessing was based on 1970s cost/benefit analysis. We're in a different world now.

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