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I don't know a great deal about this topic, but I am definitely in favor of nuclear power. I guess my question though is how do we properly dispose of the waste (serious question - like I said, I honestly don't know enough about the topic at hand...)
An idea floated around at Los Alamos National Labs was to bombard low-level waste with high-energy neutrons in order to convert it to high-level waste. The advantage of high-level over low-level is that it has a radically shorter half-life of decades rather than millennia. "Let's make it nastier so it burns out quicker" didn't get a lot of traction, though.