Yes, spent fuel rods are exceedingly dangerous, far more so than unused ones. We should really use the term "spent fuel rods" instead of the nonspecific nuclear

Yes, spent fuel rods are exceedingly dangerous, far more so than unused ones. We should really use the term "spent fuel rods" instead of the nonspecific nuclear waste. The fact that every nuclear power plant produces these and we store them in swimming pools is really not great. Not to push coal, but by comparison, nothing that can ever happen in a coal plant can create the unfixable mess at Fukushima, or the one at Three Mile Island, or the one at Hanford, or many other nuke accident sites. These are simply not "cleanup-able" situations and they will continue to fission for thousands of years.