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Grayling813 wrote:

These next generation reactors, such as the sodium-cooled integral fast reactor (IFR), are extremely safe because if the cooling goes bad, the reactor safely shuts down based on the laws of physics. These reactors also recycle their own waste on site so the nuclear material can be used over and over again (a method known as pyroprocessing). There is a very small amount of “waste” product but it can be safely stored and becomes “safe” after less than 100 years (and we know how to store things safely on those time frames vs. thousands of years required for traditional nuclear waste).

If the above is true, then I am a fan. TBH, I am also a fan of 1970s style nuclear power.
Let's add up all the people killed in the Three Mile Island and Fukashima disasters:
Hmmmm. Carry the zero.... Its...
Zero. None. Zip. Nada.

OK, lets look at the safety record of the US Nuclear Navy:
This can't be right: Perfect?
So to sum it up, US and Japanese nuclear power plants (Even those floating around in and on the ocean!) have resulted in zero deaths.
Pretty sure the European record is as good. The Russian's - not so much. But who is surprised by that?

There are a number of promising new technologies for generating power via nuclear reactions: Pebble reactors look promising as well.
As for Nuclear waste - that's a political problem, not a scientific one.
So lets stop the hand wringing, put on our big boy pants and get nuclear power rolling.

Philip964 wrote

I read somewhere that by 2035, 25% of the solar panels will be in a landfill.

True.
Solar panels have a lifespan of about 20 years.
Recycling them is. . . . Let's just say not practical.
Oh, and the output decreases over time. You don't get anywhere near as much energy out of them after 10 years as you did when they were new.

But, at least its not as bad as wind turbine blades - a combination of fiberglass and epoxy that can only be landfilled.
In really, really, big landfills.

Almost all solar panels are made in China using high sulfur coal to fuel the power plants.
China also uses slave labor to make the solar panels.
These two facts are not debatable. They are proven.

So when you buy solar panels or encourage others to do so via legislation or tax incentives, you are subsidizing slavery.
There is no middle ground.