Exactly. Solar panels and batteries can theoretically be recycled, but we generally don’t bother today, and there’s a lot more bulk in dealing with old panels and batteries than spent nuclear fuel rods.

So dealing with the waste of nuclear is a more constant thing, but also much lower volume than something like solar panels or batteries.

I think we need both, but ideally we use something other than batteries for base load supply, and only use it to store excess peak generation (or ideally, use something other than batteries for short-term storage, like hydrogen or hydro pumps).