That's my point: avoiding nuclear is failing to solve a problem that will certainly have catastrophic effects within decades to avoid a problem that may effect

That's my point: avoiding nuclear is failing to solve a problem that will certainly have catastrophic effects within decades to avoid a problem that may effect us hundreds of years from now. It's a bad trade. It's a bad trade even assuming that we don't use those hundreds of years to innovate on the problem, but we should and are. For example, see the sibling thread, or look at TerraPower's reactor that runs off of spent nuclear fuel: https://www.terrapower.com/a-solution-to-the-nuclear-waste-problem/ https://www.terrapower.com/a-solution-to-the-nuclear-waste-p...