let us weigh the damage of secured monitored nuclear waste leaking vs the uncollected nuclear isotopes into the open environment released today by the carbon bu

let us weigh the damage of secured monitored nuclear waste leaking vs the uncollected nuclear isotopes into the open environment released today by the carbon burning industry. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-... also we don't need to prevent 100% of the waste from leaking just enough to keep from rising the natural ambient background that would be in the environment naturally before we extracted it. Secondly we have the means disposing of in newer reactor designs that use waste from older reactors as fuel and their waste has a much lower half life (down from 100,000 to 500 years)