Nuclear versus coal

People tend to look at reactor fuel as a chemical reaction. Most things are, and we can control them, much like what occurs in a combustion chamber.
Reactors of any type of fuel operate on an atomic level. Once the reaction begins it can never be stopped, except by time. Lots of it. No one knows for sure how many new elements we have created but probably a couple thousand. And when it comes time to get rid of them no one wants it.
Lawsuits have already begun all over. There will be more. Then we will find out how cheap it is. When the idea of generating power with uranium was first conceived they said it would be so cheap to produce it wouldn't be worth metering. Hmmm.