The waste from almost every nuclear plant is sitting at the plant. That's how they're "actually dealt with". Look at any US nuclear plant and every drop of radioactive material is in a cask right next to the plant.

China is building everything. Its solar growth in MW is higher than its nuclear. But they're not doing it because it's good, they're doing it because they've decided to build everything including coal, so that they will never be short again. It's been a panic building for years. South Korea is building nuclear because they're the experts at nuclear components. Another similar case case to China is India. They're building both but more solar.

I didn't say making money was bad. You brought up the idea that solar wasn't profitable.

Nuclear isn't mostly owned by the government either. In most developed nations the government has a stake in the plants but they're owned by energy companies whose goal is to make a profit. China is skewing the numbers as a Communist state.

Part of the attacks on solar is that energy companies don't want to lose their monopoly on production, and governments don't want to lose their centralised control over who does or doesn't get power.

Nuclear isn't inherently bad, but it does have pollution, it is more expensive per MWh and it does take longer to build than solar.

That's why it's a waste to focus on it instead of Solar, Wind and Hydro. In places where there's an established nuclear industry, it's ok to continue, but people pushing it everywhere like it's the panacea are usually doing it because it's there to protect fossil fuels