Nuclear Energy: A Valid Option?

Nuclear energy, while it is an extremely effective source of energy production, is also an extremely messy source of energy production. There is not really a way to make nuclear energy "clean" by any sense of the word. However, holding every drop of toxic waste produced at each plant on-site is probably the worst idea anybody has come up with. There have been efforts to move all nuclear waste to places such as Yucca Mountain, where the waste would be placed miles underground where it couldn't be used to hurt anybody. The problem with Yucca Mountain as a solution is that nobody in the surrounding region is willing to house the waste so close to where they live.

As of right now, there isn't much that is known about nuclear energy. Of course we are miles ahead of where we were just twenty years ago, however that doesn't mean that we are experts with it in any way. Maybe we know enough to harness the energy into a weapon, but the real test is whether or not we can mass produce the energy in a clean and reliable way, then use it in people's houses without any possibility of harming the residents.

The first step that we need to take is to move all of the nuclear waste we have produced and get it out of the way so that it doesn't harm anybody, and cannot be used against mankind in a negative way. Once we do that, we need to figure out a way to produce nuclear energy without creating any more

waste, otherwise we are going to have a problem that we cannot handle without spewing our garbage into the solar system, which will only create more problems in the future. Then, and only then, will we have a functioning system for the production of nuclear energy.