Help, please, from the scientists here. About the problem of nuclear waste

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4. There is no such thing as "nuclear waste" in my view.

There is only extremely valuable used nuclear fuel.

It is remarkable and absurd at the end of the day that people carry on endlessly about this non-issue since over seventy years of accumulation used nuclear fuel has been collected and stored without killing very many people if any.

By contrast fossil fuel waste, called in a somewhat diversionary parlance as "air pollution" as if it had nothing to do with fossil fuels, kills millions of people each year without a peep of concern from the same people, trained by a dishonest media rhetoric, to worry endlessly about "nuclear waste."

I have spent decades, on my own time, contemplating nuclear fuel, in manufacture and use. I have convinced myself that there are no components in used nuclear fuel that cannot be put to use, often in ways in which they are uniquely qualified, to solve humanity's most intractable problems.