Sadly that’s what the human race does. It’s nothing unique to nuclear power.
It still baffles me, for example, that with all this technology, we still generate all this rubbish which we then bury in the ground. And we all know it. We all buy things in disposable packaging. We are all complicit.
On a related note, I host the Guardian to gopherspace here: gopher://theunixzoo.co.uk/1/the-guardian