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Storing the waste is still tricky, hence the Yucca mountain controversy and whatnot. The technology for reprocessing depleted uranium exists, but I don't think it's being done in the US at the moment.
The opposition to Yucca is mostly just reactionaries in Nevada who have been won over with scaremongering. Shut down the media boosting that narrative and it goes away.
I don't think there exists a single long term storage facility for nuclear waste anywhere in the world. So... that's not great.
its all nonsense propaganda, that can all be rebred to produce more energy (and those fissile materials will decay rapidly), there is NO nuclear waste, that can all be fuel. they only want nuclear for weapons and only developed the infrastructure for weapons, so thats why they store the excess fissile material. the energy produced is just a side benefit to western governments.
There's at least one. In Finland.
Ninja edit. Haha. I thought they finally finished it. Nope. "Will be" - it's still under contruction.
There was a documentary about it that came out in 2010.