End the nuclear threat

[Flabbergasted]

Safe nuclear power is a myth. Greenpeace is campaigning to end nuclear power, reprocessing and waste dumping.

The Nuclear Age began in July 1945 when the US tested their first nuclear bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A few years later, in 1953, President Eisenhower launched his "Atoms for Peace" Programme at the United Nations amid a wave of unbridled atomic optimism.

However, the use of nuclear power has never been "peaceful". Almost half a century after Eisenhower's speech the planet is left with the legacy of nuclear waste, which will be radioactive for tens or hundreds of thousands of years.
As yet, no safe solution for its disposal exists anywhere in the world.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/nuclear

[Deja Q]

1. Why can't uranium be renewed; to eliminate the waste?

Recycling...

Or is that otherwise known as "enrichment"? :shrug:

[Dead_Parrot]

2. It can...

The UK and France recycle fuel, and the Japanese are building a plant to do it. The main reason it's not commonplace is it simply cheaper to dig up new uranium than recycle the existing stuff.