Very true and it will become affordable at some point, also why we choose to store waste, for now.
On a brighter side, fusion is making progress and produces no waste.
On a brighter side, fusion is making progress and produces no waste.
When many of the nuclear reactors were built, there was no pervasive global terrorism that is a threat to nuclear waste storage (edit: an nuclear reactors).
Things don't always improve.
It doesn't necessarily need to become cheaper in absolute terms, just cheaper than the alternatives of climate change damage. Those may continue to rise as we lollygag.