We found a way. It's called thorium. Waste is only radioactive for a century and iirc it's a lower energy. They can also use current waste as fuel. Reactor tec

We found a way. It's called thorium. Waste is only radioactive for a century and iirc it's a lower energy. They can also use current waste as fuel. Reactor tech is 40 years old. If your phone is 4 years old, one might consider it trash. Imagine how good they'd be if the industry innovated even as slow and conservatively as medicine. Oh, there's also liquid sodium and fast breeders. FUD keeps the tech from advancing.