Beam-driven transmutation technology

As concerns grow about the ultimate disposition of the large amount of waste produced by the nuclear weapons program in the U. S. and Russia and world-wide commercial nuclear power, the primary approach of permanent geologic storage is making little headway. Attention to means for destruction of these wastes by neutron transmutation is therefore growing. While reactors offer some potential for dealing with this problem, there are problems with both safety and completeness of this approach.