Chicken or the egg?

Nuke plants produce the least amount of waste per kilowatt than any other source of energy, including wind and solar. Your portion of the spent fuel from a nuke plant, if you got all of your energy over a lifetime from it, would fit in 1 coke can. If that "waste" was re-processed to be used as fuel for another nuke plant your share of the waste would fit in a shot glass. Get all of your energy from a coal plant and your share would be a mountain of ash. It would fill several rail cars with waste ash. The "spent" fuel form a nuke plant is well over 90% usable fuel, and it's used to make more fuel. The non-fuel waste from nuke plants are stuff like plastic gloves and containers that were once in a "hot" area. They don't stay "hot" for 10 thousand years but maybe a decade or 3. The hippies have just taught everyone to treat any waste from a nuke plant like it is the Andromeda Strain on the verge of wiping out all life on the planet.

 

Then what is burried under Yucca Mtn out west, seems like a lot of waste getting burried out there (according to the hyped news reports)

 

Let me preface this by saying - tscottme; I admire your posts - but this subject is deadly serious.

Here I am saying WOW again. It IS like the Andromeda Strain - wiping out all life on the planet.
Japan's NUCLEAR REACTORS, 3 OF THEM, ARE DUMPING RADIOACTIVE WATER INTO PACIFIC.
For how long now? Since 2011??
You can't minimize or marginalize the severity or lethality of this event.
My problem with radioactivity is it is cumulative. That "coke can" would kill thousands of people.
Even lead poisoning goes away with time!
My buddy in the Exide plant would get a week off; lead level in blood goes down, and all is well.
Not so with Radiation. Fukushima may just be a slow-motion extinction event for the whole planet.
All of the Pacific ocean is affected, and steadily getting worse. We are talking a massive, steady release.
This release has been going on since day one. All news on this is kept quiet.
Your last sentence is telling. Radiation is not something you can just "Tuff out."
Minutes of radiation exposure kills.
Chernobyl was not even as bad as this, and hundreds died from suicide mission "cement seal" pouring.
No Hippie hysteria; just fact, And Unicorn feces is not Skittles. This needs to get out there, see all the
scientific data and searchable reports from all the way back to 2011 on energy news (enenews.com.)
You will come to realize there is more to this than you are being told. There are drone photos there showing the top of the reactor vessel blown off, and hole that same shape in adjacent building roof.
And what are all those long poles laying all over the roof? You got it; fuel rods, out in the open, and blasting radiation everywhere. Good design, General Electric.

 

And be it known that I was a fan of nuclear energy, until the ship-storm in Japan happened.
Sure, I would build a cooling pond the size of an Olympic swimming pool on the second floor, over a seismic rift, and store - long term, hundreds of spent rods in it.
Why not?
What's the worst that could happen?