RE: What France plans to do with its nuclear waste
Kudos to France for using plutonium to produce more energy, regardless of how much it may offend the sensibilities of people like former President Jimmy Carter. As for what do do with fission product waste, it is a problem. Is it a total showstopper? In my opinion, only if we choose to make it so.
BTW if it were that easy to steal plutonium, we wouldn't have been able to have a nuclear weapons program to deter the Soviet Union - which we had, from 1949 until the decline and fall of our principal cold war adversary.