There is no long term storage option for nuclear power in the US. The ability to recycle it is questionable at best. If you want to build nuclear, I wholly endorse it, as long as you provide both functional waste recycling facilities and storage repositories before you load one pebble or rod into a reactor core. As of today, recycling wind turbines and solar panels is feasible, and failure scenarios for both are benign. Recycling of batteries from utility scale storage systems is also readily available through existing supply chains.
"The United States has over 90,000 metric tons of nuclear waste that requires disposal. The U.S. commercial power industry alone has generated more waste (nuclear fuel that is "spent" and is no longer efficient at generating power) than any other country—nearly 80,000 metric tons. This spent nuclear fuel, which can pose serious risks to humans and the environment, is enough to fill a football field about 20 meters deep. The U.S. government’s nuclear weapons program has generated spent nuclear fuel as well as high-level radioactive waste and accounts for most of the rest of the total at about 14,000 metric tons, according to the Department of Energy (DOE). For the most part, this waste is stored where it was generated—at 80 sites in 35 states. The amount of waste is expected to increase to about 140,000 metric tons over the next several decades. However, there is still no disposal site in the United States. After spending decades and billions of dollars to research potential sites for a permanent disposal site, including at the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada that has a license application pending to authorize construction of a nuclear waste repository, the future prospects for permanent disposal remain unclear."
https://www.gao.gov/key_issues/disposal_of_highlevel_nuclear...
Everyone can clamor on for nuclear while wind and solar continue to rapidly decline in cost, and manufacturing capacity for both continually increases. The hill for nuclear to climb gets higher every day.
Lazard just released their 2018 Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 12.0); check out how wind and solar cut the legs out from under every other generation source.
https://www.lazard.com/media/450769/unsubsidized-analysis-ce...
https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...