> There is no hole to put it in. And talking about the hole to put it in that does not exist is magical thinking.

Very hard to build a hole. All that digging and stuff.

> https://www.propublica.org/article/uranium-mills-pollution-c...

This is about nuclear weapons, and nothing to do with nuclear power and the storage of spent nuclear fuel. Countries can have nuclear power without nuclear weapons: see Canada, Japan, Brazil, Finland. Please stop moving the goal posts.

> How's that working for Fukushima, and Chernobyl. How is that working when we close plants now. Again magical thinking that keeps kicking the ball down the field.

The effects Chernobyl are overblown:

* https://archive.today/hYZls / http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/05/anti-nu...

So says the co-founder of Chernobyl Tissue Bank, Geraldine ("Gerry") Thomas:

* https://blogs.imperial.ac.uk/imperial-medicine/2019/12/09/ra...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Thomas

Fukushima is generally the same:

* https://archive.is/mpCeG / https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/apr/26/obesity-...

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35761136

More people died in the earthquake-caused tsunami (and tsunamis in general) than the Fukushima nuclear incident and yet people still live by the coasts. More lives would probably be saved in Japan by heeding the historical warnings of Japanese 'tsunami stones' than by closing nuclear (especially since closures would increase fossil-fuel generating plants):

* https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/century-old-warnin...

More people have died from the evacuation than from the nuclear incident, see [3][4][5][6][7][8] in:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...

> This is very simple: where are we going to store the nuclear waste for 100k years and where is the money that covers its expenses going forward.

Cooling ponds are needed for a ~decade or two. After that casks work just fine. All that "100k years" is just non-sense: at those time scales all that's left is alpha radiation (which can be stopped by pieces of paper) and maybe beta radiation (stopped by aluminium foil). The only way that the "100k years" (or even 10k years) stuff can harm you is if you eat it or grind it into a powder and snort it like cocaine.

Stop being so over-dramatic.

We need to deal with climate change in the short term, and renewables will not provide a complete solution (I have no problem with them generally, just with treating them as a sort of panacea): they are intermittent and need fossil fuel backup capacity ((natural/methane) gas, coal, oil) as there is not enough battery capacity on the planet to keep things running over longer time durations. Ontario was able to shutdown all of its coal plants because of the capacity that nuclear provides, and even though it built out lots of (e.g.) wind infrastructure, there are often times that it drops to zero (this week, 2024-04-08, it's been pretty good so far).

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data § Supply

> Show me that facility BUILT, show me the bank account FUNDED, show me the insurance contract for when your wrong and I will get behind nuclear. Till then lets stop pretending that were gonna solve it later. We aren't.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering_Nuclear_Generating_S...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlington_Nuclear_Generating_...

I live a few dozen kilometres from Pickering. It's fine. Again, see "What About the Waste?":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2t2tYQsK94