With the many high tech nuclear setups that are possible but rarely used the waste and other issues could be marginalized. Because we have stood still with nuclear for over 30 years we have missed many possible opportunities, who knows, we may have solved all of the nuclear issues by now if we had stuck to it.
I believe the future lies in small scale "passive" nuclear plants, assuming of coarse we can get their efficiency up.
Just clean, cool, solid state radioactive power with no reaction.
In the future breeder reactors could likely be the best solution.
But as long as we produce waste we should also use the energy that waste makes to produce electricity.
Cheers
Ryan
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