I do NOT agree with what I understand the current plan of waste storage to be, i.e. burying it permanently in rock formations. Someone once said, I don't know who, that one man's garbage is another man's resource.
First, breeder reactor systems should be built to "burn" a lot of the high-level radioactive fuels. If you are burying something that is seething with energy, you are wasting a resource.
Second, nuclear waste should be stored in a few central locations in heavily fortified and shielded enclosures, guarded by the military. Somewhere on an existing desert military base would be fine. We need to be able to access the waste, so that when better solutions come around--which they will long before the waste decays--we can still work with it. Shoving it in a hole and forgetting about it is a lousy solution.
We need to get our energy policy out of the hands of lawyers and people with names like Butterfly and Moonbeam.
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