“If years of spent fuel are stored at site, it is precisely because nuclear produces minuscule quantities of byproduct while generating huge energy.”
Those Minuscule quantities of Nuclear waist are more deadly than anything on the planet. And they last for eons.
However you are even wrong about the quanity, and it just shows how ignorant you people are.
“A 1000-MW nuclear power plant produces about 27 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel (unreprocessed) every year. In 2010, there was very roughly estimated to be stored some 250,000 tons of nuclear HLW, that does not include amounts that have escaped into the environment from accidents or tests.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste
“Those Minuscule quantities of Nuclear waist are more deadly than anything on the planet. And they last for eons.”
BTW, want something more deadly than anything on the planet (whatever that means)? Try arsenic. And it lasts FOREVER.
And I don’t see anything in what you posted that contradicts what I said, that is the amount of nuclear waste is minuscule compared to the energy produced. All the nuclear waste ever produced by mankind can be stored in some square miles, which is peanuts. BTW, unprocessed fuel is not even waste, it’s pure energy, that could be burned in fast reactors, a technology which has worked safely for more than 3 decades (see e.g. the IFR, Phenix or the BN800).