This article is about all the nations have trouble recycling the nuclear waste. Since nuclear waste can cause harmful effects to the environment, we can’t just divert them to landfill. In addition, nuclear waste can also be used to make plutonium, a chemical that can be used to produce nuclear weapons, and that’s why the U.S. banned it because they don’t want to set an example so the other nations can have a excuse to do the same. Furthermore, some report said that “No currently available or reasonably foreseeable reactor and fuel cycle technology developments — including advances in reprocess and recycle technologies — have the potential to fundamentally alter the waste management challenge this nation confronts over at least the next several decades, if not longer,’’ that means they won’t have any method to completely recycle the nuclear waste until decades later, which will eventually leads to new kinds of problems.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/a-long-long-road-to-recycling-nuclear-fuel/