Oh, this is so cool news! We actually have tons of old fuel here in Germany, as we are bailing out of nuclear power. Would you mind, if we send it to you? It would be free, including shipping!
They actually don't accept everything "sent" and they have a law to send back to the originating country all the remains of the whole process that aren't the newly replenished usable fuel.
Just out of curiosity, as I do not know much about nuclear power: could you give some example of an existing reactor with advanced technologies you just haven't built enough yet and which can reprocess old fuel?
I just googled a bit. The most modern nuclear plant, which is going into operation by the end of 2019, seems to be Olkiluoto 3 in finland. Building time (without planning and licensing procedure) was 14 years and that building time and the actual costs missed the forecasts by pretty exactly the factor pi. This plant is NOT processing old fuel. The current calculations says, if the plant runs for 60 years under full load without interruption, the price of the generated electric power will be equivalent to the price of offshore windpower as it is today. China hasn't started new nuclear power plants since 2016, as the produced electricity would be 20% more than solar and wind.
https://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Atomkraft-Die-letzten-ihrer-...
By the way: all of this calculations do not at all include costs for storing wasted fuel for a couple of thousands years (which is ok, because, as you say, there won't be any, as it can be reused in your reactors).
So any hints where I can find more information about the new reactors that burn old fuel??
