> And in densely populated Europe, we don't have the luxury of such places at all

All the nuclear waste of Europe could go in a building that's about one hectare. Yet there is enough place for both ten thousands of hectares of open pit coal mines, and hundreds of hectares of totally unprotected and open-air ash ponds containing toxic sludge that is guaranteed to more dangerous to your health - and sometimes also more radioactive - than just about any nuclear reactor waste.

Face it, the "Green" movement in Germany which has lobbied to replace nuclear power with wind/solar in the last decade (instead of replacing coal with renewables and nukes) are responsible for gigatons of carbon emissions and will be rightly vilified by future generations.