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Also, America does not have a more sensible policy on storing spent fuel. This is pure falsehood. America's version of storing 'spent material' amounts to simply deeming anything as 'waste' as an irredeemable substance that must be locked away in a vault in a mountain, miles away from civilization. Spent fuel can be converted into MOX fuel, or it can be repurposed for a number of industrial applications. Perhaps one of the best uses is in the bio-medical field. However, know-nothing environmentalists have made it a political nightmare to repurpose spent fuel, and they use scare tactics to achieve their ends. Places like France, where a majority of their energy comes from Nuclear, AND they repurpose spent 'waste' into MOX fuel, etc., have literally a fraction of leftover waste that America does. The french have a single Olympic-sized pool to store ALL of their waste, meanwhile here in the States, we need dozens of storage facilities, and we're locking away valuable material that can be re-used.
The fact that Japan had MOX fuel rods isn't a problem, again, the problem is that the cooling process was not allowed to adequately come to a draw-down because a goddamn wall of water fucked eveything up. Nuclear power and as an extension, MOX fuel, are perfectly goddamn safe, it's a technology that's been used for decades. It only becomes a problem when.... GIANT GODDAMN WALLS OF WATER DESTROY SHIT.
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