Or even better, fund technologies like molten salt reactors that can use all the “waste” fuel that current generation reactors put out. The waste from these reactors is inert. That means no long-term storage problem.
The Canadians use the heavy water plants. As I understand it they aren’t the most efficient but they do appear to be fairly safe.
Nuclear under Obama better put safety over efficiency.
“The waste from these reactors is inert.”
I’m not sure about that- it will have less uranics and transuranics, but there is plenty of other stuff, like cesium, cobalt, barium, and the like.
Not true. The leftovers from these plants is in no way "inert". If anything, it is more intensely radioactive than other current waste. The big difference is that it contains much less long-halflife actinides (Pu-and others). So instead of needing to be contained for a few tens of thousands of years, they'll only need to be contained for a few hundreds of years.
But they'll still need waste storage facilities.