[Spridgets] Re Renewable energy (off topic)

[peter at nosimport.com (Peter Caldwell)]

At 09:26 AM 5/9/2011, Steven Guterman wrote:
>Agreed,
>
>The storing of the waste is why I do not like nuclear plants.  The half life
>if plutonium is 250,000 years.  All human written history is 5,000 years.
>No one has a clue how expensive it will be to store all the waste.
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Maybe a dumb question, but I want to be educated.
      The waste is "hot", so to speak. Is there no conceivable 
potential use for the waste? Can't something be derived from it?

         Peter C