Not exactly, they reuse waste which reduces the amount of waste but makes the remaining waste more radioactive.
That isn’t a reason to not use nuclear though since either: the waste can be made worse (which also makes it better because it doesn’t last as long) and can be buried only for 200 years which is easy to manage, or the waste can be used as an ingredient in betavoltaics which gets rid of the waste (and might get us to the point where we need to spin up nuclear reactors just to make more waste to use).
Either way it doesn’t matter, green generation and storage are now to cheap for nuclear to be considered economical anymore.
Newer designs eat waste, don’t they?
Not exactly, they reuse waste which reduces the amount of waste but makes the remaining waste more radioactive.
That isn’t a reason to not use nuclear though since either: the waste can be made worse (which also makes it better because it doesn’t last as long) and can be buried only for 200 years which is easy to manage, or the waste can be used as an ingredient in betavoltaics which gets rid of the waste (and might get us to the point where we need to spin up nuclear reactors just to make more waste to use).
Either way it doesn’t matter, green generation and storage are now to cheap for nuclear to be considered economical anymore.