Still Poisoning The World

According to this report, the UK intends to "dispose" of their excess plutonium in a novel way:

https://www.azerbaycan24.com/en/uk-to-dispose-of-radioactive-plutonium-stockpile/

The US has a similar problem and once intended to insert plutonium-filled cans into the radioactive waste glass logs produced at the Defense Waste Processing Facility in South Carolina. I once worked at DWPF as a planner and later did my MSc degree research at the nearby Savannah River Laboratory. Did my time in the belly of the beast.

Anyway, the entire process got scrapped because the people of Nevada decided they didn't want to host the high level waste repository which was to be located in Yucca Mountain. All the glass logs are still stored at DWPF.

Apparently the US is still hemming and hawing about how we should proceed:

https://thebulletin.org/2022/09/some-fuels-never-learn-us-energy-department-returns-to-costly-and-risky-plutonium-separation-technologies/

Exactly how our plutonium will be processed and where it will be buried is anyone's guess. Meanwhile, it continues to be produced in our civilian power reactors.