Handling waste isn&#x27;t <i>that</i> difficult of a problem. There are better reactor designs which use a lot of that waste as fuel, and what&#x27;s left just needs to be sealed up real good and left to sit behind some good fences.<p>Basically all of the real-world problems with handling nuclear waste are because anti-nuclear advocates prevent any action from being taken to handle waste, but meanwhile there are operating reactors producing waste and that hasn&#x27;t stopped. So nuclear plant operators are forced into ad-hoc solutions for waste disposal because nobody will let them do it right.