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Frontline: Plutonium recycling would eliminate the need for a permanent geological repository for nuclear waste. Instead, scientists in a high-tech underground "nuclear waste laboratory" would use new technologies to transmute plutonium and other waste into less harmful substances.



Response: As noted above, recycling does not eliminate plutonium in spent fuel, or even the need for a permanent spent- fuel repository. Eventually, spent MOX fuel, like standard, spent low-enriched uranium fuel, will require permanent disposal in a >repository. "Transmutation" remains a pipe dream that looks less promising the more it is studied. Even if it is ever proven successful, transmutation would require thousands of years and hundreds of reactor cycles, and still would not eliminate all plutonium and other actinides.
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