One aspect of nuclear that is almost never mentioned is the disposal of the waste. The owners of Germany's nuclear power plants paid 24 billion in 2017 to rid t

One aspect of nuclear that is almost never mentioned is the disposal of the waste. The owners of Germany's nuclear power plants paid 24 billion in 2017 to rid themselves of the responsibility for it. It will cost the country an estimated 170 billion for temporary and permanent solutions, and the money is now invested in a fund to grow it. It was criticised by Greenpeace as insufficiently small. The government and even the Greens accepted this as there was a danger the companies would try to weasel out of paying anything. What happens if a company goes bankrupt? The management of the waste becomes the responsibility of the society. A lot of countries (even the US) don't have a permanent solution for the storage of nuclear waste and some of the temporary ones were already reported leaking.