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Use it as reactor fuel. The "waste" which is radioactive for thousands of years is fissile and the fission byproducts are not radioactive for that long.

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Germany is forbidden by international law from having the processing facilities that could re-enrich the spent fuel to reuse it.

Ironic, since Germany is maybe the only country I would trust with such facilities. From a pure not-fucking-it-up perspective. (Ahem... cough Sellafield...)

Well, look at the Asse II, Germany has a long tradition of fucking uo everything nuclear.

The french actually are allowed to do it, and have the facilities, and don't have nearly as many issues.

I would not count on it, since in France everything nuclear is state controlled and largely state owned. Independent control is not on the level as in Germany.

Ouch. Apparently €140 million of federal money is spent a year for the Asse clean-up, and they haven't even begun retrieving the 140k barrels yet?

use it as is in Molten Salt Reactors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_reactor

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