Germany's soapbox against nuclear power made of coal.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

And a fair amount of that waste is radioactive.

Not to the level of spent reactor fuel, but you are quite correct.

Nuclear is still the better bridge between NOW and when "renewable" technologies are truly cost effective. I'd like to see us stop burning the fossil fuels not because of climate change -- the biggest culprit of which is all the billions of us breathing and giving off CO2 -- but because those long-chain petro molecules are so blinking useful for so many other things aside from burning them....and the renewal time frame for petrochemicals is a tad.....epochal.