The bulk of the words in my post described not just high-enrichment reprocessing like France (with proliferation risk), but a far far far more capable & interes

The bulk of the words in my post described not just high-enrichment reprocessing like France (with proliferation risk), but a far far far more capable & interesting ability to just burn a wide variety of transuranic nuclear wastes & to have a broader MOX reprocessing. That doesn't highly resemble the process of making nuclear bombs. Please, read my IFR wikipedia link, I'll wait! So far breeder reactors have been some of the least economic energy-generation systems on the planet. We also attempted them only in the most limited window of time, long ago, when nuclear was so young, and have never tried again. It seems unlikely cost will really come down (unless we actually factor in the network-externalities of dealing with the waste, which so far no one has ever had to face). I think a lot on the sharp-as-a-tack Charles Stross's Nothing like this will be built again, which isn't a breeder reactor but speaks to a more ambitious & open ended time. And I semi-weap for a humanity that cannot experiment, cannot try great things, that is market driven, risk-averse, & rational to a fault, at the cost of ignoring so much potential. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-l...