the first benefit of nuclear power is that Radioactive Waste
the nuclear waste contain radio isotopes with long half-lives.
This means that the radio isotopes stay in the atmosphere in some from or the other
In the future. technology will find a way of refining this waste and producing more radioactive uranium from it. Other than that, there is no advantage of nuclear waste.
The high level nuclear waste can be placed as a blanket over the fast breeder thorium reactor extracting some of the residual energy in the nuclear waste and making the waste less dangerous long term. As far as I know we have only made one. We need to build more thorium reactors to improve the technology, which looks very promising. Neil