France recycles yearly 1700 tons of nuclear waste, since 1966. Over half a century, that's what I would call safe enough. That's about the size of the US waste

France recycles yearly 1700 tons of nuclear waste, since 1966. Over half a century, that's what I would call safe enough. That's about the size of the US waste production, and represents the waste produced in France plus the Netherlands and Germany and and. So that end-to-end model exists already, it's just many people don't know some things are happening also outside US borders.