The Yucca mtb in Nevada is a mess, no one wants a lot of radioactive waste buried in their state.
They can send it into space as space trash...
People will always remember the disasters you mentioned above.
Corporations like to sell oil and coal to the companies that are burning it to generate energy, hard to stop that when politics are involved. But burning things leads to pollution...
China is building a lot of reactors that last I checked... Uranium is cheap...
In what sense is it "a mess"? Because locals don't want it there?
Because the USA has no place to put the nuclear waste. I can't blame Nevada for not wanting the stuff, even if Yucca mtn is in the middle of 'no where'...
It should just be forced to re-open. We need a nuclear waste repository. Yucca Mountain is perfect. Fearful, misguided people shouldn't be able to prevent that.