But my water heater doesn’t have radio active waste that has a half life of 25,000 years.
If the half-life is 25,000 years it's not very dangerous. It's when the half-life is 25 years is the time to be concerned.
The US Navy has been operating nuclear reactors *at sea* for decades. My city has had three nuclear reactors in our bay, probably more with the subs.
They are safe. France operates so many they actually export power.
Safety is not defined by the film “The China Syndrome”.
The greenies have been very effective at needlessly demonzing nuclear power, and we are paying a terrible price today because of it.
Waste will be a temporary problem, eventually we will move on to fusion reactors, waste someday we will be able to dispose of, perhaps launch it into space. Throw it into Jupiter, he won’t mind. LOL