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Plans for waste are greatly exaggerated and haven't there been new scientific advancements that help make them more recyclable?
Kind of sort of. The main thing with nuclear is it can take 15 years to build a plant. It was the answer 2 decades ago. At this point we need something NOW and with increasing efficiencies of batteries and solar I personally think we'd be better off leap frogging the majority of nuclear projects.
We can do both. We are limited in input materials for solar and wind, and those materials don't overlap much with what nuclear power plants need.
Nuclear waste storage is nonexistent for political reasons, not technical ones. It's much cheaper to dump it in Africa than to hollow out Mt. Yucca.