Reply #1: OK, I'm revealing my ignorance and need some educating......

[texanshatingbush]

Dim Son touted nuclear energy, among others, as America's savior in gaining freedom from the dastardly grip of fossil fuels. As I recall, much was made at the time (don't remember if it was by Bushco or by the media) of France's reliance on nuclear as a clean source of energy.

Here's what I have never heard: how does France deal with it's nuclear waste? How do other countries which rely on nuclear energy for power deal with THEIR nuclear waste?

I seem to recall that the initial experimental nuclear plant at Hanford placed its nuclear waste in concrete-lined storage pits, because that was the best they had at the time and they were banking on future technology innovations to discover a foolproof way to sequester the deadly stuff until it no longer posed a problem for mankind. I think they're still waiting.

Someone knowledgeable, please clue me in.....and thanks for the education!