I have watched a lot of NOVA/SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN shows dealing with the nuclear waste issue.
I like to think that as we commit to SOME kind of nuclear energy program that the incentive(financially/ environmentally) will drive a answer to the problem of getting rid of the spent fuel rods?
I saw plans to "sling" the waste into orbit and then into the sun.
The wildest one was using some kind of microbe type thing to EAT the waste and somehow neutralize it?
Point is when there's a market for something then new technologies spring forth to improve or safe guard it.
Comparing the technology of today in the nuclear energy field is like comparing silicon chips to transistors.
Jane Fonda in The China Syndrome, did more to set back nuclear power than any REAL accident or terrorist strike :(
I don't know what was worse, her and the Leftist Hollywood establishment sensationalizing and fear mongering nuclear power or her visiting Hanoi during the 60's and posing for pictures with the enemy >:(