'breeder' reactors are scientifically accurate, but scary PR. Call them "Waste Reduction Reactors" (which is also true). The general theory that I recall read

'breeder' reactors are scientifically accurate, but scary PR. Call them "Waste Reduction Reactors" (which is also true). The general theory that I recall reading was that it was desirable to continue processing the material within a reactor. The reactors are so radioactive that proliferation is a suicide on site mission, and the outputs are a mix of isotopes that either decay /quickly/ (half lives on the order of decades) or REALLY SLOWLY (thus not very radioactive). That's the waste reduction part; it's 'waste' in the most literal sense of us not having extracted the energy.