People "don't want them" because of fear peddling by people saying exactly what you're saying right now. Of course you want us to "move on" because that means

People "don't want them" because of fear peddling by people saying exactly what you're saying right now. Of course you want us to "move on" because that means the asinine state of affairs people like you have created will not be challenged. Waste that is "highly radioactive" cannot be "long lasting" because physics just doesn't work that way. Anything atomically spicy will have decayed into less spicy things in decades, typically a handful, dozens at worst, resulting in waste that's not really any more harmful than heavy metal laced this or that that humanity already deals with in the waste streams of other industrial processes. The fact that nuclear waste decays at all is really a godsend. You can literally just ignore the problem until it goes away. This isn't the case for heavy metals and some other types of pollutants. You can NEVER build a house on an unmitigated lead mine. Furthermore, the actual physical amounts of waste produced by nuclear are tiny compared to other things. Yucca mountain was gonna store waste for literally the entire nation.