Unfortunately the democomies are preventing safe clean, nukes. Read up on breeder reactors, fast breeder reactors and gates’s traveling wave reactor.
90% of nuke energy remains in a depleted nuke rod.(300 years of global energy needs already exist in waste) All breeder reactors render that waste safe, some make plutonium, which is critical for manned and unmanned space flight. The democomies since the peanut farmer have said no weapons grade material for the usa, and deal with the waste in the worst way imaginable. (i guess we should shoot it in to the sun, but we’re not allowed to launch it because of the crash risk.)
Shoot the democommies, let the market fix it.
The sad thing is, spent fuel from reactors, either LWRs or breeders or whatever, is totally unsuitable as a source of plutonium for nuclear weapons. The reason? Too much 240Pu. The 240Pu essentially "poisons" the material because of its high spontaneous fission rate. That produces neutrons when you don't want them, and causes the weapon to pre-detonate. A special plutonium breeding cycle is needed to minimize the 240Pu while still getting enough 239Pu. It requires the material to be removed at a precise time after the start of irradiation. Obviously, in a reactor, this specialized breeding cycle is not used. You just burn the fuel down as much as possible without regard to optimizing the 239Pu/240Pu ratio.
Carter didn't understand this. Neither do almost all anti-nuclear people who oppose nuclear energy on this basis. When I explain it to most people, it's like an epiphany. Of course, the dogmatic anti-nukes usually mumble some other absurd objection, but when you knock their legs out from under them with scientific arguments, you can see they are really deflated.