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Solar power + battery? Or hydropower? That way there won't be, well, nuclear waste at the end? You know, the kind of waste that's highly radioactive? The waste that doesn't have a plan to be safely stored away for tens of thousands of years?
Fun fact: nuclear waste can be used again, it isn't a widely spread practice but some countries do it (i forgot which tho), oh and wel all forgot about the fact that in the next years thorium could be used instead of uranium?
You can "recycle" the waste. Which means extracting the remaining uranium and concentrating the remaining waste which is more radioactive after that.
Which is done because it is cheaper than new uranium.
Thorium will be working before fusion reactors?
Also there is technology that indeed can use current radioactive waste and make power from it and break it into less radioactive waste. However the technology seems not that cost efficient yet. (well normal nuclear plants aren't either)