Fusion solves nothing you can not solve with fission.

With fission you can easily go down to 300 years of storage, this has been known since the 60s but that's often ignored.

Waste is only a significant problem if you want to make it a problem.

Breeder reactors are definitely interesting avenues that I wish we'd gone down from the beginning.

Still 300 years of storage isn't great. It is still a duration of time longer than the US has been a nation.

But its not like you need tons of active management of that waste. Its literally stuff that stands around and does basically nothing.

You could literally just put that waste somewhere in the desert, put it there and leave. The chance that that waste ever actually harms somebody is basically zero.

Basically any cave that isn't likely to flood with massive amounts of water is fine.

> Breeder reactors are definitely interesting avenues that I wish we'd gone down from the beginning.

You don't even need a Breeder for this, a Burner can get there as well.

Well obviously if fusion were a thing we could all switch too I don't think anyone would argue. Unfortunately the reality is for the foreseeable future, fission is the only way to generate power. If you're talking about building a reactor in the next 20 years, you build a fission one.

If somehow we have a breakthrough in fusion technology to make it energy positive, then I have no doubt we'll see a huge increase in people trying to use it.