* Long term waste. Must be contained for hundreds of thousands of years
* Decommissioning. Nothing lasts for ever. What do we do with an old reactor vessel and the land it stood on?
There are many much better ways of producing energy. But unfortunately for the greed heads they are mostly decentralised (wind and solar are ready now) which means big industrial cash generators do not result from them.
This is a boondoggle. I wish I could say it is the last gasp of the desperate, but it is the core of the military industrial complex heaving its weight around.