If you reprocess and reuse the waste it's no longer thousand of years. It's barely 300 till the waste is less radioactive than uranium we dig to create the rods

If you reprocess and reuse the waste it's no longer thousand of years. It's barely 300 till the waste is less radioactive than uranium we dig to create the rods. And we have the tech, it's just cheaper for now to dump the stuff underground. With enough political will, 90+ of the waste can be transformed in mol multiple times and reused multiple times