... their civilian counterparts must be feared too.

While I understand that, the proposition for this storage directly solves the German in issue you've mentioned. The radioactive rods, won't need to be kept in these containers, the sedementary rock that they're buried in, as well as the layers of clay (and, yes, the storage tanks they're in now), will prevent the radiation leakage. It's thousands of feet under ground, and in the eventuality a significant amount of erosion occurs over thousands of years the radioactive material will no longer be emitting harmful amount of radiation.
I fully believe in a solution such as this, as well as the use of radioactive isotopes up until a time we can support renewable energy.
The Co2 per KWh differences between fossil fuels and nuclear fuels as well as the infrastructure costs between current renewables and nuclear power is phenomenal.
There are legitimate causes for concern, don't get me wrong, but it seems to be largely baseless and forms around the idea that because nuclear weapons are bad...

@f_kyeahhamburg
The Finnish are currently building a funky little storage facility. It's called the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository. The facility, which began construction in 2004 will house the world's current nuclear waste, and then be filled in with clay after a few years. The clay, prevents radiation from leaking into the environment because of the wastes' lack of penetrating capability, and markings for the site will be removed in an attempt to ensure the site is never discovered.
A final resting place for the waste, completely undisturbed and unknown to an entire civilization, long past the human timeline.

You'll understand sarcasm someday, Captain Condescending.

Wonderful, thanks for the meaningless elaboration.

What

Oh yeah?! Tell that to the uh.....the ummmmm....hmphf. I can't even say the British for this one.

When you get customer and consumer, mixed up

I don't even think it would go that far. We'd "rally" hundreds of thousands and then, watch as it fizzles out and those who do commit to a cause get stopped by law/upper echelons