A nuclear catastrophe like the one at Fukushima is really bad, but it's only a factor of 10 worse than the normal operation of a coal plant generating as much e

A nuclear catastrophe like the one at Fukushima is really bad, but it's only a factor of 10 worse than the normal operation of a coal plant generating as much electricity as Fukushima did. And that's for the coal plants we have in the West with our "clean coal" scrubbers and so forth. What we consider a disaster in nuclear power is closer to business as usual in coal power. By all means replace nuclear plants with solar. But only after you've finished replacing all the coal plants.