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Dams also cause huge ecological damage - there's no easy solution. Nuclear is good if (and this is a big if) the nuclear wastes are managed properly. Even then, right now sometimes it feels like nuclear waste is currently treated as the "next generations" problems.

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We can re-use nuclear waste now. Something like 90% of "waste" can be recycled and reused. It's not like we're just shoving it in yucca mountain anymore.

Not to mention that the amount of nuclear waste is absolutely tiny. If we can solve the political problem of where to store it then we could feasibly keep all of the nuclear waste ever produced in a single location far away from anyone or anything. I'd much rather have a nuclear waste storage site near where I live than live near a gas plant constantly spewing emissions into the air. I can tell where the nuclear waste is, I have no control over where the wind blows and which air I breathe.

Not really. That is the dream of the fast reactor. It had been ongoing since the 50s. All attempts have been more costly than uranium reactors and there's only one in Russia which has operated with any kind of longevity.

They also have proliferation concerns and have therefore been limited to nuclear powers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast-neutron_reactor

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