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Each nuclear reactor generates about 3 cubic meters of high level nuclear waste each yeat. This stuff is extremely dangerous - but only if you're actually exposed to it.
The great thing about this waste is that it's extremely highly concentrated. So we could store it in a tiny space for millions of years.
You may have to move it to a new container every now and then. But it's such a small volume that it's very easy to take care of.
And that explains why France's nuclear waste has never killed anyone.
What will happen to that waste in millions of years?
There are several possibilities.
1) There will be a few billion cubic meters of nuclear waste. We can store that. It's still an insignificant amount of volume.
or
2) The waste will have been recycled to reduce its mass and make more energy.
or
3) There will be new technologies to deal with the waste.
Any one of those three things is perfectly safe.
If you had been living in the 17th century, I bet you would have said, "We need to conserve the world's supply of candle wax, or else the people of the 21st century won't be able to light their homes at night."
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