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saying nuclear and coal both suck is kind of like saying both a plate of shit and a plate of overcooked brussels spouts would suck to eat for dinner. In theory I don't like either but one is significantly worse.
At least with nuclear waste it's not loosely scattered in the atmosphere, doesn't have a harmful effect as long as it's properly stored, and in the future we will likely have better ways to deal with it.
It's never properly stored, never. Nobody wants that stuff stored nearby them. There is not even any good experienced knowledge how to store that stuff stable long term. So far it's all been temporary storages and quite a few of them have gone real bad. And we are doing nuclear for how many years now? This problem won't go away. In fact it will multiply and become much bigger if we were to increase the number of nuclear plants.
This is complete bullshit. The storage is fine, to the point that there isn't a problem. Even as temporary as it is, there is so little of the high-level nuclear waste that we can use our "temporary" storage for thousands of years before it gets to the point where we have to mark off, say, a football stadium to keep it.
You're fear-mongering out of your own ignorance.