Why not nuclear power?

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9. Most "nuclear waste" is potential fuel for coming generations of Molten Salt Fast Reactors MSFR's).

Typical used solid reactor fuel has 95% of energy still left in it. If it is completely burned in a MSFR the resulting ash after cooling can be put into casks and will finish decaying to background levels in 600 years (not the 10's of thousands we have all heard). The total amount of waste will only be a few percent of the original "waste".

In Terms of Ward Valley and Yucca Mountain, high level "waste", it is a valuable resource. We could start removing it in coming years to fuel the new generations of MSFR's. It will likely be possible to even turn the existing meltdown "corium" from Chernobyl and Fukushima meltdowns into a usable fuel.

You sentence "About which can do nothing except basically hide it." does currently described the waste from coal fired power plants. It seems that it may also apply to electronic waste.

Molten Salt Reactor research was stopped in 1970 for political and corporate greed reasons. As a result we still have reactors that have 1960's technology in them. Had that not happened it is likely we would have far less CO2 in our atmosphere today and Fukushima might have never happened. MSFR's do not have to be water cooled and the fuel is already melted so "meltdowns" will not happen.