There are several examples of people writing that, even if they don't think that on an earlier article here about a waste storage incident at Los Alamos.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/01/11/1820225/nuclear-waste-accident-costs-los-alamos-contractor-57-million
eg."The reason we have a nuclear waste issue is because of the reprocessing ban that Jimmy Carter put in place"

A vast number of others are on the Fukishima articles - especially the ones on the day proclaiming success before the list of problems became clear (eg. the secondary problems from fuel storage on site).

Wrong on all counts. I started working as a contractor after I had spent a few years building up skills, contacts and a bank account. I stopped working as a contractor a few years later when a client wanted me full time and the tax hassles meant it made more sense to be an employee instead.

regardless of when you do it or what your skills are

Far less risky when you have some saleable skills.

Only if your business has a very short term view and a lot of legal hassles. How do you cope with a project that spans a decade? Oh that's right, you don't!

Especially interesting since there's a lot of Lithium in salt lakes that can be scooped up with a bulldozer in California and Bolivia.
I've been following the Indian ideas on accelerated Thorium but had no idea that Lithium could also fit in the concept.

Waste disposal is still, the last I heard, an unsolved problem

I mentioned Synroc above so if you had read the entire post before replying you would have heard otherwise. Not ideal and it doesn't cover everything but a solution of sorts.

Does anyone actually think that?

Perhaps they do not, but whether they believe it or not we get plenty of people on this site saying it.

Ssh, the cargo-cult fanboys want to pretend there isn't any and that it can all be fuel, so instead of starting a fight let's humour them so they will at least start to consider costs for once instead of pretending it's all "too cheap to meter". Maybe they will learn something and be informed about the topic instead of thinking of it as magic perfected in 1970.
However if you want an answer, for the very active waste there is Synroc - bit of a guess as to how much it can be scaled up to drop costs but at least it (finally) exists. The less active stuff is a lot easier to handle and store, which is just as well because it makes up the majority of the volume of nuclear waste

Here is part of why you as a complete outsider think there is a problem. It's about journalism jumping on weird shit instead of a problem with how science is run:
http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=49...

don't use passive voice

It depends on the material - technical documents are a bit different to marketing material so sometimes you are stuck with it.

If the advice has a chance of being wrong it's not a good situation to insist it's perfect.

Or set policy and do it in the open. Sometimes arbitrary rules get in the way of everyone apart from the person that has set them without thinking of the consequences.

So here's another one - don't work for a place large enough to have a legal department that can get you sacked :)
I'm in the resource exploration sector, and things can move slooowly. Ten year old emails do get dragged out at times when the client wants to have a bit more done on a project. Data tapes from the 1970s even get dragged out of storage at times when the client has lost the original. So sometimes business convenience outweighs the risk of negative outcomes from legal discovery.

That's an interesting answer kids, pretend to be self-reliant by sponging off others and start a business when you have little experience on how to do anything involved with it. Why would we want the kids to have their attitude adjusted to that?
A different answer is to get some skills together so you have something to sell first. If you can't keep it in your pants long enough to get that far before having kids then why do you think you have enough self discipline to run your own business anyway?
This "get your attitude adjusted" shit is condescending and hilarious in this suggestion where an "entrepreneurial type" is supposed to sponge off their parents. It sounds more childish than entrepreneurial to me.

I don't play office politics, but I do document everything

Now that's a good tip, a related one is you are responsible for stuff that other people use make sure you have excellent logging/records/snapshots/real backups/etc. There really are "dog ate my homework" people out there that will try to get you sacked for losing emails/documents/etc that never existed as a distraction from them not doing the work in the first place. It won't cure them but you will no longer be the path of least resistance so they'll try their tricks out on others instead.

In large places maybe, but in smaller ones you can't afford to be so timid and you have to be the person that is stupid enough to tackle it.