I really wish we would move to Thorium reactors instead or at least start doing some real research into the viability of them. No need for the large cooling towers (almost zero chance for a melt down like you have with uranium), and the radioactive waste products from a Thorium based reactor are less than 500 years, really a couple hundred years (yes a long time but logistically manageable). whereas radioactive waste from Uranium based reactor is like 100,000 years!  My problem there is, I can't imagine the logistics of trying to manage the storage of that for 10 times longer than the pyramids are old. We can barely manage bridges and roads infrastructure let alone something that needs looked at for 100,000 years!

Thorium of course is not without it's drawbacks - but the main reason it never got off the ground was because the push was always for Uranium reactors from Military to supply nuclear grade weapons material - Thorium would not have supplied all the material for those 50,000 nuclear bombs made in the 1950s - 70s. So research was very limited on Thorium and there was no demand for it.  They should start looking into it more now finally since there's no nuclear arms race anymore.

of course fission is always being worked on but the joke there is that it's always 20 years away. 20 years ago it was 20 years way, 10 years ago it was 20 years away LOL