A 26,000-ton pile of radioactive waste lies under the waters and silt of Lake Powell

[shanny]

7. Your premise only works if the sole alternative to nuclear is burning fossil fuels.

That's silly. Darn near everything is cheaper and becoming more so by the day: https://cleantechnica.com/2016/12/25/cost-of-solar-power-vs-cost-of-wind-power-coal-nuclear-natural-gas/

And that's ignoring other issues with nuclear: it is expensive to build, nobody wants it in their back yard, it's non-renewable (or have you got the solution to nuclear fusion in your pocket?), it is dangerous, and of course there's the storage of waste, which after 50+ years we still haven't figured out. If there had been nuclear reactors at the time of Christ, the plants might have lasted 50 years...and we would still be storing the waste (surely nothing untoward could happen in that span of time, or even longer)

But soldier on, do. Everybody needs a hobby.