re: Deconstructing a good article
You are quite correct in pointing out that the waste issue was tossed aside too lightly in the article, but as you point out, recycling is a well-known technology already at use in other countries.
The sooner this system is set up in the U.S., the better. There is no reason secure facilities couldn't be set up for this, assuming the thirty years we've already lost due to nuclear psychosis can ever be made up.
As yet, there have been no major accidents in the U.S. involving nuclear waste.
However, the hazards and deaths, never mind greenhouse gas issues, associated with mining, transporting and burning coal by the megaton are going on right now, every day of the week.