I didn't realize we were suffering from a shortage of drinking water.
We have a place to store nuclear waste and its called Yucca Mountain.
Yucca Mountain is just a solution to one problem that creates more problems. Yucca mountain is insufficient to deal with the already existing quantity of nuclear waste in America. It will immediately fill up to it's capacity and there will still be tens of thousands of tons of waste yet to be dealt with. Worse than that, it will just facilitate the creation of yet more nuclear waste to deal with. That all means that they'll need another site and another and another. This isn't what I call a long term sustainable environmentally conscious solution to the energy problem. It also violates the civil rights of an entire state. The Federal government is forcing an entire state to do something that they do not want to do. I'm uncomfortable with eminent domain normally but especially so when the government is telling an entire state they have to bury a bunch of poison above their water supply. Then there's the fact that the whole thing is built on two fault lines that have accounted for over 600 earth quakes in the past 20 years. Then there's the risk of transporting the waste and the fact that the site violates Indian treaties. I could go on.
In France,Germany and Japan, nuclear energy provides 80 percent of their power. They have not had any complaints.
A.)They're burying it too and B.) they have all been implicated in illegally dumping radioactive waste into the ocean. Pardon me if I seem a little too environmentally conscious for your conservative tastes, but I think dumping radioactive waste into the ocean is a bad idea... a really bad idea in fact. Furthermore, I wouldn't use the European model of anything as a guide to dealing with America's problems.
Use unmanned shuttles to ferry loads to a space station and then send a big barge type shipload to the SUN. Price for disposal should be deposited before commissioning of reactor or military use.
Can I have my check now please?
That is why you develop fusion technology which is around the corner