Nuclear power is the right path.

Safest form of electrical generation ever invented. Only 52 deaths from Chernybol and zero from Fukshima and Tree Mile Island. Zero in Canada of course.

Newer nuclear plants will burn the wast from earlier models.   No need for Yucca Mountain.

Low level radiation reduces cancer by 95%.  Yes, hard to believe that we have not been told the good news. 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2477708/