Well Thorium has once again stepped up to the plate, and proven itself once more to be a very nifty little element.

Scientists at the US, "Notre Dame University", have been playing around with Thorium, and discovered that if they cook it up with Boric acid, they can extract these little Thorium crystals that will absorb nuclear waste.
Apparently each crystal has a slight negative charge, that attracts stuff with a positive charge, like nuclear junk.

This is a significant improvement of the use of clay, which acts similiarly, but far less efficiently.

Keep it up boys, I know that scientists and governments tell us that Nuclear (pronounced newk yull err, by the same folk who supply us with baa lewins) Waste, is not a problem, but until they get this whole waste management issue right, I for one will still hold grave reservations about the whole Nuclear energy issue.

Here is a link to an article which gives tells the story.

http://news.sp@m/tech/nuclear-fuel-thorium-green.html

Uranium carried the day when the first nuclear power generation facilities were set up in the fifties, chiefly because uranium production , at the time, produced the highest value by-products. What were those by-products, do you think? Here’s a clue: the biggest customer was the Pentagon. These days the market for the by-products is not so hot: partly because the U.S. has realised that destroying cities and vaporising humans doesn’t really achieve much militarily, and partly because they’ve worked out cheaper ways to do it if they ever fell so inclined. Unfortunately, in the meantime, all of the generation infrastructure is geared for Uranium. It would be nice if a fledgling nuclear country, say, Australia … could be sensible and go down the Thorium path. But even though this would greatly decrease the proliferation of weaponry inputs, we’ll probably end up with uranium … the spare parts will be cheaper.