Quoting you “The amount of power you draw from a reactor determines its waste output.” That is a very WRONG statement. Once a reactors starts up even if it shuts down and is then decommissioned / removed the amount of fuel waste is the same as when you run for 2 years making 100% power and then remove the fuel.
As for generated operation waste such as clothing or other non fuel wastes, that is literally a non issue and managed such that it does not pose a radioactive challenge at all to the environment once disposed. Also it is independent of the power level, it relates to the time you maintain a plant.
Either you are woefully informed in which case I am happy to chat and discuss / educate you (that is my job now, I teach how to fix and manage nuclear power plants) OR you are not acting in good faith with that statement.
I am acting in good faith, for what it’s worth.
I hope you can explain how nuclear waste is “disposed of”. My understanding is that its radiation will have to decay naturally. I expect that the best we can do is hide it away, until the levels are safe to live with.
As to my “wrong” statement, are you saying that it does not accelerate the exhaustion of a fuel rod to run it at higher power levels? That is my expectation.
For generated operational waste, I am thinking more of steel piping and construction than I am clothes. I believe that almost all of the reactors ever built and since decommissioned, sit where they are. You would not bulldoze them to put in housing, or scrap the steel. To me, this puts obvious limits on the industry.
Thank you for your explanations.