How can it be called "clean" when it produces toxic waste that requires its own infrastructure and expertise to be handled.
I think you meant "co2-emission-free-while-operating"
I think you meant "co2-emission-free-while-operating"
1. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/5-fast-facts-about-spent-...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage#/media/File:N...
That's always been a paradox with nuclear power. On one hand, of all electric power generation technologies, nuclear power has the most toxic waste; on the other hand, that toxic waste is completely contained under normal operation, so that looking from the outside, it's one of the cleanest. That's why in these discussions you always have people talking past each other: depending on how you look at it, nuclear power can be very clean or very dirty.