Nuclear power plants have caused much controversy over many years, and a lot of people can get very worked up when we talk about nuclear. But whether nuclear is a right or wrong decision is irrelevant. The fact is it happened. And now we are stuck with a lot of nuclear waste. The waste at the moment seems to be hanging around, just waiting for us to find a long-term solution for its disposal. So in effect we have already committed ourselves to find a way to dispose of nuclear waste, whether we build more nuclear or not.

New nuclear generation technologies apparently produce 10% of the waste that the older ones produced. This means that for every ton of waste we already have we just get another 100Kg. So it does not really change the dimensions of the problem. If you can find a long-term solution for 100% of the waste, you can find a long-term solution for 110%. And since we are committed anyway to solve the problem, and we have already borne the disadvantages of nuclear, we might as well make some use of the advantages.

Massive amounts of energy with low carbon footprint, sounds like a useful thing to have.