What do we do with the waste? What's the risk with meltdowns? That stuff coming out of the stack that we see in a typical nuclear plant, is that some scary waste or what is that?

The subcomer of the stack is typically just steam that's being released.

So that's always just water vapor.

There's nothing radioactive of concern in that regard.

As for the risks of meltdowns, like that is a possibility and any loss of coolant events, it being reactors allowed to overheat.

So essentially what happened in Fukushima was when the tsunami hit the site, They were not able to quickly enough reduce the reactors into a safe state so one of their units lost back up flooring because their back up diesel generators got flooded because they were just too low of an elevation when the water came in.

And essentially what happened is that lack of cooling results in the fuel heat up and then it creates steam and hydrogen reactions.

And my question is, did the West, let's just say the US where I'm most familiar, but include Canada if you'd like, did we finally realize that nuclear matters and we should actually start moving forward? Or is it really just AI pulling the nuclear industry forward and the government finally acts because there's no alternative?