Now are you a contrarian troll too, with your own share of straw man arguments? Most nuclear reactors (they furnish about half the electric juice up here in Ill-noise) are in “private hands” and yet that doesn’t mean pieces of scrap get trucked out to landfills and other foolish things.
The private part is about building the containment facility, the reactor facility, etc. The government part is about regulating every single step in the use of the fissile material.
Still radioactive CRP ends up in landfills.
Do a Google.com search for “nuclear waste in landfills” ~ kind of jarring!