is it a bad take to say that unlike traditional fuels at least there’s waste to dispose instead of an ungodly amount of waste instantly dissipated into the atmosphere to cook the planet to death

Nuclear doesn’t need to be perfectly safe, only safer than letting the planet boil around us.

nuclear can only be truly safe once there’s a way to dispose all the waste, or recycle it

I note that under the capitalist mode of production we see today, no one has any motivation to achieve this

All of our nuclear waste can be stacked on a football sized field with little issue. This was sold as a ‘bad thing’ for a country of 330 million people. Imagine if we could stack all the carbon in the atmosphere from our electric grid, the fact that its not air is fantastic. And its not like solar or wind don’t produce waste. Solar has a lot of electronic waste, whereas wind still uses oil for the fan blades. Not to mention, both of those techs are highly dependent on battery tech which is highly caustic (and even radioactive sometimes!) and can really fuck with the environment. Regardless, in our giant country we can legit just stack all of our nuclear waste in a couple of secure locations and that is way better than having millions of points of possible pollution.

Beside the point, the USA doesnt invest in recycling fuel (fun fact: nuclear ‘waste’ is still able to produce a fuckton of energy if you use it right). In fact, most reactors even in the USA recycle fuel by accident because its hard to get all of the waste out so it just ends up producing energy anyways. China, however, is building nuclear recyclers as we speak, as well as using various innovative methods to ensure that any radioactive material is in a solid containable form, not liquid or otherwise.

Dig a hole in limestone.

Literally just dump nuclear waste in a decommissioned granite mine or something, it’s not complicated