Reprocessing plutonium: A dead end

While producing electricity, nuclear power stations create plutonium. The plutonium is contained in the irradiated nuclear fuel (INF) resulting from operating a nuclear reactor.
In addition to the separated plutonium and uranium, reprocessing creates a tremendous volume of radioactive waste - chemicals, equipment and other materials involved in reprocessing, generating a volume of waste as much as 189 times greater than that contained in the original irradiated fuel.