The fact that this simple line of reasoning seems to be completely missing from the minds of anti nuclear activists is...perplexing.

At the same time it's not. Big scary looking symbols plastered over everything compared to just filling the air making it out of sight out of mind. Once that's achieved, the mass populace doesn't care. Try to build a facility with those scary symbols that are visible anytime one chooses to look, and people get all NIMBY very quickly.

The solution seems obvious. Set up a town of nuclear power activists. YIMBY.

Or create scary-looking CO2 storage facilities in every town.

Depending on the town, that storage facility already looks scary whenever you look up

We do have long term solutions. Large low oxygen beryllium copper caskets encased in steel. Drop them into a shaft bored into a mountain.

There's other ways, of course, but this was the best one I remember reading about; it's expensive but less so than the incidentals of CO2 and particulate release.

We don't have short term solutions for storing CO2 either.