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by DennisP 3970 days ago
The long-term waste is the transuranics, which reactors like the BN-800 can use for fuel. What's left is fission products, which go back to the radioactivity of the original ore in a couple centuries.

Transuranics are 99% of conventional nuclear waste so we'd reduce the waste volume by that much, too.