It gets better! With Thorium and various 4th generation designs of reactors, the "waste problem" that all the anti-nuke folks harp on about shrinks with time to become a non-problem.

Most high- and medium-intensity radioactive waste can be "burnt" to produce energy.

Nuclear reactors can also supply a lot of thermal heat for industrial processes, fx. "PtX", that is, Hydrogen generation. 

 Yes, a lot of specific information on this can be found on https://energyfromthorium.com/forum