The problem is we don&#x27;t even know what it means to deal with waste for 10,000 years. If the Romans had used nuclear power, we&#x27;d still be guarding their waste. And they likely would have put it somewhere really out of the way - like London. If some of the technologies that can transmute waste intro shorter lived stuff come to fruition, fantastic. But until then nuclear power is just the worst kind of deficit spending, kicking the unknown and huge costs way into the future.