>A coal plant just isn't capable of making a thousand square miles uninhabitable for centuries. Neither is a nuclear plant. Cleaning up within a century seems

>A coal plant just isn't capable of making a thousand square miles uninhabitable for centuries. Neither is a nuclear plant. Cleaning up within a century seems feasible. A lot of Chernobyl exclusion zone is completely safe, it just hasn't been revised in decades. Just compare to how fast Fukushima exclusion zone is shrinking. And you're ignoring loss of land due to rising sea levels. >Companies just can't be trusted to run nuclear power plants. If companies can be trusted to run hydroelectric plants, which have a capability to drown everyone downstream, then they can be trusted to run nuclear. I've never seen anyone campaigning to end hydro even though potential for disaster is much bigger (and hydro disasters with more casualties than Chernobyl happened several times). >We still have no large-scale long-term plan for how to dispose of nuclear waste Given the amount of nuclear waste that is produces this seems a weak concern. Anything that's heavily radioactive is just an energy source to be reused (and there's a lot of research being done on this). And the alternative is a lot (and I mean a lot) of solar panels and batteries, and these need to be disposed of as well.