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Re:After Yucca Mountain: How to store US nuclear waste by cakeface on Friday July 10, 2009 @04:30PM (#698312)
"The authors of the policy forum also cite a study by the National Academies of Science that concluded reprocessing will be extremely expensive."

Won't storing it be extremely expensive for a lot longer? Is this a case of costs now versus 10, 100, or 1000 years from now?

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Re:After Yucca Mountain: How to store US nuclear waste by ubernostrum on Friday July 10, 2009 @06:04PM (#698503)
Reprocessing also offsets some of its costs, by producing things like highly sought-after medical isotopes.
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