Economics

Reprocessing is expensive, won’t make economic sense unless uranium is over ten times more expensive than it is today (or waste disposal is much more expensive or impossible).
- No current forecasts foresee these uranium prices for decades into the future
Recycling requires constructing a whole new fleet of fast neutron reactors.
- “Burning only 1% of the log” is not a good analogy for current thermal reactors. Even “free” energy costs money to extract, whether hydro, or solar, or wind, or U-238.

Reprocessing is expensive, won’t make economic sense unless uranium is over ten times more expensive than it is today (or waste disposal is much more expensive or impossible).