U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island. Now it’s cracking open

Paywalled so I cant read but that dome in cover something with a porous bottom and rising sea level isn't helping either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=autMHvj3exA

More FUD. Nuclear energy is the safest energy.

This is waste from nuclear weapons testing, it was concreted over as a "temporary measure" and now it seems like a more permanent solution needs to be found.

Unclear why you believe nuclear energy (by which I assume you mean nuclear power generation) is relevant.

Does anyone else feel helpless when reading stuff like this? Is there anything I can do to make things better in these scenarios?

I've sorta reached the conclusion that nuclear energy is the safest form of energy if everyone is well behaved and disciplined about it.

On the other hand, given the wrong incentives, you might just stow nuclear waste where it's cheapest and where you can get away with it, and then not be penalized when the containment mechanism you cheaped out on fails... or maybe you just conveniently forget to do maintenance on it as the responsibility for doing maintenance somehow conveniently evaporates due to some bureaucracy.

I think the debate isn't over whether or not nuclear power itself is safe, it's the debate over whether or not humans under capitalism are to be trusted to behave responsibly with this technology. Nuclear power isn't just the technology in isolation... humans are an intrinsic part of it.