Eli5: What is so bad about the waste of nuclear power plants? Why are many governments so against it? What is so hard about storing the waste in a safe place?
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unrational fear of the people, and government workers are generally directly or indirectly elected by the people.
Older people know of chernobyl and younger people learned of it, and then saw fukushima, even though they are not related in the slightest.
They also see the direct deaths of chernobyl and not the indirect deaths of coal miners, oil harvesting and all the other side affects of dirty power.
So people are afraid, thus government has to act afraid, even though it would be better and much much safer.
Waste is not an issue, the world has thousands of sites we could easily store waste, and the waste created is very small amount.
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