Like I said, this is an issue that does definitely merit a response.
We've been storing spent civilian nuclear waste for 70 years now. In the world's history of storing spent civilian nuclear waste there's not been a single death associated with that. We know how to shield radiation very, very well.
We need a permanent solution. Finland is building a deep geological repository right now. It will be open shortly. As I was mentioning before, the geology is what contains it. We talk about burdening things. We think about civilizational life skills. It's reasonable to say, “Oh my God, 10,000 years. There hasn't been a civilization that's lasted 10,000 years.” We're talking about rock that's hundreds of millions of years old and completely stable, and we understand the characteristics of that rock.
If it takes water a million years to move a metre through that rock, carrying anything that could potentially come out from all of those engineered barriers, it's no longer harmless at that point. We need to be worried about the forever waste out there, the heavy metals, and particularly, the fossil fuels that are continually spilling into our atmosphere and driving climate change.
I know we don't have much time. I'm happy to address this further, but I do think this issue has really been blown out of proportion by anti-nuclear environmentalists who use it as a means to prevent what I think is our most effective climate solution.