@rugk @sidereal @infobeautiful >How doe nuclear clean up anything?
Uranium is either open-pit mined or leached.

Mining it does do some damage to land, but it has a much, much higher energy density than coal, thus even pit mining it is much less damaging than coal.

The mined radioactive uranium no longer contaminates the ground.

>the result is highly toxic for maybe 1000th of years to come
Radioactivity is not toxicity.

Hot isotopes tend to have short half lifes and thus decay quickly.

Slightly used neuron poisoned fuel can be reprocessed again and again until there's nothing left, but that's more expensive than mining fresh uranium.

>no one knows how to store it that long in a safe way. (neither does anyone want to store it)
That is an easy to solve, but politics always gets in the way.

You just find a tectonically stable location, dug a deep hole, throw the slightly used fuel in and fill the hole back up and problem solved - but we can't allow that can we?

Or do it the USA way and throw the lead barrels into the middle of the ocean and nothing will happen.

Assign me a GNU state and I'd gladly welcome anyone who wants to drill a hole and dump their slightly used fuel.