This is an excellent run down of a clear view on nuclear. However, I'd like to add that nuclear waste is also very much a solved problem beyond just storing it

This is an excellent run down of a clear view on nuclear. However, I'd like to add that nuclear waste is also very much a solved problem beyond just storing it safely as well. Nuclear reprocessing [1] is capable of taking all spent nuclear byproducts and turning them into not just vastly more useful energy, but also comparatively tame byproducts that do not require extreme storage methods as they are of no harm to humans in less than 100 years. It literally closes the nuclear fuel cycle and is ~80 year old technology. The only reason we don't do this is economic. Uranium in America is plentiful and incredibly cheap. It is currently less expensive to buy fresh Uranium for ancient reactors and store toxic waste forever than to build reprocessing plants and breeder reactors and have no toxic waste. Reprocessing is done routinely in Europe, Japan and Russia where Uranium is not as cheap and they incidentally don't have any problems with nuclear waste. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing