In particular, pyroprocessing (http://www.cse.anl.gov/pdfs/pyroprocessing_brochure.pdf http://www.cse.anl.gov/pdfs/pyroprocessing_brochure.pdf), which can separ

In particular, pyroprocessing (http://www.cse.anl.gov/pdfs/pyroprocessing_brochure.pdf http://www.cse.anl.gov/pdfs/pyroprocessing_brochure.pdf), which can separate out all actinides forming the bulk of nuclear waste. The actinides can continue to be used as fuel in an appropriate reactor, leaving just small amounts of short-lived (<1000 years), highly-radioactive "ash" as nuclear waste. Importantly, non-fissile isotopes such as U-238 are continually recycled so that no energy is left unextracted. This was nearing completion in the form of the Integral Fast Reactor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor) at the Argonne National Laboratory, until it was cancelled in 1994 at the behest of President Clinton and John Kerry. The reason for its cancellation? The belief that any nuclear reprocessing is bad for "nuclear proliferation". I cannot even comprehend the mental gymnastics required to justify shutting down vital research which didn't even produce isolated plutonium when the country possessed thousands of nuclear weapons and tonnes of weapons-grade plutonium. How the fuck would this have any affect at all on "nuclear proliferation"?