Didn't mean to imply nuclear doesn't have its own risks. I just think that they are extremely small relative to those of coal / natural gas. Chernobyl is respo

Didn't mean to imply nuclear doesn't have its own risks. I just think that they are extremely small relative to those of coal / natural gas. Chernobyl is responsible for more-or-less 4,000 total deaths. Air pollution is responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. annually, and about 7,000,000 annual deaths worldwide (more than smoking). I think the only open issue with waste containment is that the waste will remain radioactive for 100s of thousands of years, possibly longer than time it would take the container to break down (and I guess someone might try and dig it up?). Not a real practical threat.