> A mistake that causes a station blackout for a couple hours can cost thousands of lives A mistake that causes a hydro dam burst can cost thousands of lives.

> A mistake that causes a station blackout for a couple hours can cost thousands of lives A mistake that causes a hydro dam burst can cost thousands of lives. A coal power plant operating as designed does cost thousands of lives due to direct pollution and eventually thousands more through climate-change-induced famines. A solar farm of a size that can replace a 3GW nuke plant as baseload doesn't exist yet, would have to have 10-15 GWpeak capacity, would need a 10-15 GWh battery just to cover overnight load-balancing, which is a substantial chunk of global factory capacity for batteries...