Spent nuclear fuel is anything but waste

Just read this article: Spent nuclear fuel is anything but waste and seriously, I'd find it hard to agree more. Our current use of the once-through cycle, and the fact that we haven't broken ground on a new reactor in over three decades borders on the insane. (I will grant, Nuclear reactors aren't currently terribly economical, but if environmental regulations more closely tracked actual risk, that would be... err.. vastly altered.