Why is nuclear power considered to be a “clean” energy source when its waste is so contaminating/dangerous?

Question

Like. Nuclear waste/disasters contaminate areas for thousands of years and cause cancer. Why is that “clean”?

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Answer 1

You can easily store the nuclear waste and not have to worry about it much. There’s also relatively little waste to handle from nuclear plants.

And because ALL of the waste from nuclear plants is normally stored somewhere safely, it’s NOT going in the environment at all and hence nuclear plants are indeed very very clean ecologically speaking.