The thing about greenhouse gases is: if we stop emitting them today they will still cause problems for decades.
With nuclear waste the time scale is vastly different. For that we need to be able to plan for milennia.
With nuclear waste the time scale is vastly different. For that we need to be able to plan for milennia.
It's a bad trade even assuming that we don't use those hundreds of years to innovate on the problem, but we should and are. For example, see the sibling thread, or look at TerraPower's reactor that runs off of spent nuclear fuel: https://www.terrapower.com/a-solution-to-the-nuclear-waste-p...
1. Dig a very deep hole
2. Put the bad stuff in the hole
3. Undig the hole
Well hot damn I guess I've done thousands of years' worth of planning.