Spent nuclear fuel rods can be and should be reprocessed and fissionable materials extracted for re-use. That’s what the Savannah River site was originally set up for. JIMMY CARTER (piss be upon him) put an end to that before it even got started. I hope you’re not casting your lot with the likes of that ‘rat.
Unlike lithium mine tailing ponds.
"Congo says 12 dead, 4,400 sick following Angola mine tailings leak"

Link to Angola story above:
“Congo says 12 dead, 4,400 sick following Angola mine tailings leak”
[Personally, I think that Greta Thunberg should be “renditioned” to Angola and forced to work with the other child laborers in a lithium mine.]
https://www.mining.com/web/congo-says-12-dead-following-angola-mine-tailings-leak/