Nuclear is the best btw.
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Nuclear isn't the best anymore. Batteries, solar and wind are cheaper and take way less time to build
Don't forget, that they produce immediately useable energy. No heat loss, due to steam turbines.
And then there is the timespan that nuclear waste stays harmful. OPs "indestructable" container have to stay indestructable for millions of years.
If we assume 40 years as a generation, that will be 50,000 generations. The whole history of mankind is only 400 generations.
Edit: Added sources for everyone unable to use the Internet for its intended use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#cite_note-3
Half lifes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_plutonium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_uranium
Estimating a generation of 40 years was generous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_time
History and pre history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_history
More like between 30 and 1000 years. Still a long time but you're being pretty hyperbolic suggesting millions.
The time radioactive waste must be stored depends on the type of waste and radioactivity.
The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle, mostly spent fuel rods, contains fission products that emit beta and gamma radiation, and actinides that emit alpha particles, such as uranium-234 (half-life 245 thousand years), neptunium-237 (2.144 million years), plutonium-238 (87.7 years) and americium-241 (432 years), and even sometimes some neutron emitters such as californium (half-life of 898 years for californium-251). These isotopes are formed in nuclear reactors.
Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#cite_note-3