Reply #9: The IEEE article says the best that France can do is reprocessing to manage the waste [View All]

[Kolesar]

France is not operating any breeder facility and it is not because President Carter banned them.

http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb07/4891/4

With visions of nuclear electricity “too cheap to meter” long gone, the case for breeder reactors has shifted from creation of new fuels to management of spent fuels. Without breeder reactors, the case for reprocessing is less than compelling. Considered in isolation, the economic arguments for and against reprocessing are a wash. Most of the arguments concerning security and terrorism, too, seem moot. But until or unless breeder reactors are commercialized that can truly burn up all the residual fissile material found in spent fuels, reprocessing will simply concentrate high-level waste in a form that’s hotter and harder to handle, exchanging one nuclear waste headache for another.

That's what Ohio is getting.