EU is cooking something with EU Directive on Liability for Defective Products. I've read only part of it, but basically companies are liable for bugs in software unless they opensource it.
Can you cook macaroni? Or is it based on boiling water?
All data is stored on partitions, so one way or another you copy them. Easiest way to copy them is to dd. Second easiest way is to mount rootfs and boot fs and do mksquashfs on them. Third way is to pack it to tarball like Gentoo does.
Something you had in there once shouldn't be overly radioactive
It still counts as radioactive waste. It was example of something regular people don't associate radioactive waste with, but still counts as one.
Something you had in there once shouldn't be overly radioactive and the fact that it isn't doesn't say anything about the dangers of radioactive waste.
"This waste shouldn't be overly dangerous and the fact that it isn't doesn't say how dangerous it is". Wow. How did you do this?
What does that even mean? How is that saying anything about the dangers of radioactive waste?
Did you read what I write?
I will rephrase you:
What does that even mean? How is that saying anything about the amount of radioactive waste?
I was talking about reusing uranium from "spent" fuel, not about using plutonium.
Found source that says "spent" fuel is 95-98% mix of uranium isotopes that were there. Sadly, source doesn't say how much of each isotope, I expect very low amount of U-235. Yes, you can also use plutonium in MOX fuel, but only Russia, France and China do that, as far as I know.
do we have any in the US?
Dunno. Do you? If you don't, you can buy them from mentioned above countries.
EDIT: France no longer has working breeder reactor? How did it happen?
Not in this economy. We need change in consumption too. Make loads opportunistic. Have extra energy - heat more water. Or heat homes. There was video on Technology Connected about it.
Gentoo is factory assembly line