It seems easier to not produce the CO2 in the first place than to produce it then run another industrial process to remove it... which in turn uses even more electricity.

The amount of CO2 is orders of magnitude more than the amount of radioactive waste; you cannot just build “one factory in Nevada” and sequester all the carbon dioxide produced.

We need to capture about 1 trillion of tons of CO2 to return to sane levels, and then capture about 25 billion tons of CO2 annually. It looks doable.

See http://www.climatecentral.org/news/first-commercial-co2-capt... .

That process absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere at low concentrations (400 ppm) onto stones coated with X-material. Later the stones are heated (using more fuel) to release CO2 at much higher concentrations (more than 75%). Then what? It is a gas. You need to bury the carbon. They suggest feeding it to greenhouses, to grow food, which re-releases it later.

Six orders of magnitude, to be precise. Nuclear fuel has 2 million times more energy per mass than any chemical fuel or storage system.

Can we do that today? Well, there’s your difference.

The problem with CO2 is that we can do it tomorrow, or, even better, somebody else will do that instead of us.

With radioactive waste, we _must_ bury it today.

Why must we bury radioactive waste today? Sealing spent fuel in dry casks is an eminently practical approach.

In fact we don't bury it today or for the past 60 years. No problems with that solution yet.