[lukeqsee]

That consideration is the biggest.

Nuclear power is safe, intrinsically. Nuclear waste is devastation waiting to happen (if not now, in the future).

[waterlesscloud]

It's a bit much to say that a system that requires multiple elaborate systems of safeguards is "intrinsically" safe.

[lukeqsee]

"Intrinsically safer" was probably the better term.

[asharp]

Not really.

If you take the waste out of a thorium cycle reactor (ie. no fission products with half lifes > 100 hears), burn it down until there is basically nothing left then turn it into glass and stick it underneath solid granite in the middle of the worlds most geologically stable tectonic plate then no. It's not exactly devistation.