Switzerland approves tech to slash amount of radioactive waste from atomic power plants

The Financial Times (gated) carries the report. In (very) brief:

• technology known as “nuclear transmutation”
• could cut the volume of highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants by 80%
• would reduce the time it remains radioactive to “less than 500 years” (from hundreds of thousands of years)

If this proves to be be corrrect it's a game changer for energy.