Does anyone actually think humans will still be walking the Earth 10,000 years from now? Or that the Earth will still exist even?

Probably, and definitely yes.

Yes I'm pretty confident that humanity will still be here 10,000 years from now. I'm absolutely confident that the Earth will still exist.

And I'm willing to bet that in the next hundred years we'll figure an even better use for this waste, and they'll take it all out of Yucca Mountain and be happy that we stored it safely there.

I've read that the French aren't even trying to create 1,000,000 year repositories for their nuclear waste. They're building 100 year systems and counting on scientists then to come up with a better answer.

Well I'm not so eager to jump on the French train. They've had far more nuclear material accidents than we have. I have no problem with the EPA or the DOE placing heavy restrictions on the disposal of nuclear material - the stuff is far too dangerous in its own right. However I do not wish to see neo-luddite groups like Greenpeace or Earth First making policy - their modus operandi would paralyze industry to further their goals of bringing man back to the stone age.

We have been here for at least 250,000 years and possibly as long as 4 million years depending on which expert you want to listen to. We have survived multiple natural disasters, climate changes, plagues, and epidemics. Are you that seriously convinced that we will blow ourselves to smithereens or poison ourselves into oblivion in the next 10,000 years?

In the Year 2525
In the year 2525, if man is still alive
If woman can survive, they may find
nuclear waste was dumped in far less safe places than Yucca Mountain!

Use it as temporary storage better can be developed.

The whole world needs a safe place for nuclear waste.

The Soviet Union used to just dump it into the ocean. Taiwan is storing their nuclear waste in a bunker on a islet that goes under water at high tide. Waht about everybody else?

...Hanford?

Seriously, there are seventeen sites that are relatively well known and admitted by the U.S. government. There are several more that I know of that don't make most reference lists, so there have to be quite a few. Other countries like the ones you pointed out have nuclear waste material stored God-knows where. Then there is the naturally occurring radioactive material in the background, and a bunch of current and former nuclear power plants. It's everywhere.

Exactly, it's everywhere. Stored in far worse places than Yucca Mountain by governments who do not have to do as we ask, or at sites like Hanford.

Better to have the US waste at least safely gathered at Yucca till we can do better.