Correct! The material the "scrubbers" getting coal particles out of the chimneys is actually more radioactive than the average "nuclear waste" is.
Yet it sits in open retaining ponds & such.
"Nuclear waste" is 90% not radioactive at all. Clothing, paperwork, materials that never saw an isotope are stored as such. Even the actual "core materials" are mostly harmless after just 20 years. Dental x-ray materials.

That's the whole point! If something is highly radioactive? It has a short "half-life". It degenerates rapidly into non-harmful, less radioactive materials! Rapidly!

The exception is certain plutonium isotopes which have a long half-life (comparatively) BUT degenerate into REALLY nasty isotopes that fire radiation everywhere. Ok that shit is nasty! But it's what? 0.001% of waste? And is handled completely separately, for good reason!

But never in 1M years will an Alarmist listen to facts 😣