There’s a lot of misunderstandings around repressing and how useful it is. Basically what we’re doing actually makes a lot of sense even if it might not seem t

There’s a lot of misunderstandings around repressing and how useful it is. Basically what we’re doing actually makes a lot of sense even if it might not seem that way. What matters for current reactors is u-235 which is largely consumed by nuclear reactors where the vast majority of extractable uranium in spent fuel is u-238 already considered a waste product “depleted uranium” cheap enough to use for ammunition. There’s value in extracting a short lived products from a small percentage of spent fuel for use in medicine etc, but in general if you want to do repressing waiting 100+ years makes everything cheaper. As such even if we eventually do reprocessing using dry cask storage until natural uranium runs low is a useful approach.