> all nuclear reactors produce long lived radioactive wastes which are left for humanity to manage well beyond the forseeable future.
That's just flat-out wrong. The "waste" from current nuclear reactors is perfectly fine as fuel in newer reactor designs, you can burn the fuel again to get more energy out of it, and reduce the half-life of it significantly. I'm confident that that process can be repeated again, and again, and again, so that at the end we won't have any waste left that needs to be stored.
Yet the public at large is still convinced that what was true in the 70's has to be true today, despite decades of research and technological innovation...
That's just flat-out wrong. The "waste" from current nuclear reactors is perfectly fine as fuel in newer reactor designs, you can burn the fuel again to get more energy out of it, and reduce the half-life of it significantly. I'm confident that that process can be repeated again, and again, and again, so that at the end we won't have any waste left that needs to be stored.
Yet the public at large is still convinced that what was true in the 70's has to be true today, despite decades of research and technological innovation...