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Yes long term we should get rid of it (for fusion), but in short term the priority is climate change. And nuclear fision is a tremendous asset for climate change. There are still huge challenge of course, and we are unfortunately not at all on course to tackle them, but depriving ourselves of nuclear is only going to make things worse.

Today's "waste" is tomorrow's fuel for breeder reactors. We don't need to store waste; we need to burn it.

Nuclear plants do not 'blow up' this is simply total distortion of reality.

There are ways to help solve the waste issues, and ways to make plants safer.

Given the near infinite latent power in nuclear, and the fact that it's Co2 free ... we should probably be considering this strongly and putting a lot of effort into researching it.