Unprocessed spent fuel takes 1m years to pass its peak of radioactivity; recycled fuel wastes take a mere 1,000 years.
So he and Mr Singh set up a series of experiments to rectify the matter.They started by placing roughly half-gram samples of unprocessed raw cotton of different maturities into circular stainless steel meshes.
For one thing, Germany will have to take back the hundreds of containers-worth of unprocessed nuclear waste it has already sent to France and Britain.
Third-world food-processing businesses would also benefit, for the tariffs on processed food are often even higher than on the unprocessed sort.Coffee producers, for example, are currently suffering from a big slump in prices, thanks to rapid increases in production in Vietnam and elsewhere.
But it is quite a gamble.Indonesia has few smelters, and earns $5 billion a year by exporting unprocessed minerals such as copper concentrate, nickel ores and bauxite.
Yet the kaka, a forest-dwelling parrot in New Zealand, is competing with (and losing to) introduced wasps for honeydew and nesting holes.Alien species often arrive with unprocessed wood.
Moreover, like other quality cameras it can shoot in "RAW" mode, which is used by professionals to produce a large, unprocessed image file for advanced manipulation with photo-editing software.
And though he once hinted at lifting the job-destroying ban on exporting unprocessed mineral ore imposed by his predecessor, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, it remains in place and Jokowi has fallen silent about it.This meddling, nationalist attitude will scare off foreign investors and is the wrong way to boost Indonesia's prospects.
But it is also worth noting that buried, unprocessed waste cannot be used to make bombs.
America's Federal Bureau of Investigation alone has a backlog of more than 200,000 unprocessed DNA samples from convicted criminals (about 85% of the samples it has collected during the past six years).
In theory, the export of any unprocessed logs is illegal.
