Finland has been "close to completing" their storage site at Olkiluoto for quite a long time now. Let's see when they finally get it into production. I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Not a scientist or anything, but from what I've read there are already reactors that use this waste developed. Why aren't we using those reactors? Do they also leave waste behind?
@UltraGiGaGigantic @geneva_convenience France did have a commercial scale fast breeder reactor, Superphénix.
To my knowledge there exists exactly one reactor in china, and this is a test project. We know very little about it. I have seen many many talks in the last 10ish years but for such a "break trough idea" very very little actual physical proof for any of the big claims.
Edit: Wikipedia article of said reactor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMSR-LF1