Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

I love the 'ideally' in the dry cask storage article...

"Ideally, the steel cylinder provides leak-tight containment of the spent fuel."

Also guessing that article is woefully out of date since it mentions:

"The NRC estimated that many of the nuclear power plants in the United States will be out of room in their spent fuel pools by 2015, most likely requiring the use of temporary storage of some kind"

The best thing about nuclear, IMHO, is that all of the highly radioactive waste ever produced by nuclear power plants in the US could fit into a single football stadium. Compare that to coal, oil, natural gas, etc.

It's not too hard of a problem to solve, it just requires political will to bury it in a dry geologically stable desert somewhere in the US, which we have plenty of.

`not too hard a problem` - just hard enough that it hasn't been progressed for decades.

but the great thing about next gen reactors is that the waste solution does not need to be addresed; any waste from next gen reactors will simply go wherever the final solution for existing waste engines lands.