Nuclear waste management is already here man, I saw an article not too long ago about a scientist developed a system to use lasers to reduce the half-life of the spent fuel rods, while others were working on recycling and reusing the nuclear material as new rods.

The actual amount of waste can fit inside of a football field, and of that only a small percentage is the really bad waste. The vast majority of it can be recycled and with the laser tech (once fully developed), reduce its effects to something far manageable.

I honestly don't know what your experience is with nuclear, but seriously look into it. It's not just a single save all fulcrum device like on an oil rig. There are safeties upon safeties upon safeties.

Palo Verde nuclear plant near Phoenix, from what little I know have at a minimum 3, redundancies for any major system on top of redundancies for those systems. Not to mention the insane safety precautions and procedures required for anything to happen.

Thats not to say shit doesn't happen or won't happen. At least in the US, the regulation bodies are beyond anal about keeping things safe. Reactor technology is lightyears ahead of what it was decades ago making it incredibly safe and viable for energy production.

To say anything can fail is why I don't like it is ignorant.