So because I was in an airplane crash and developed a fear of flying, which doesn't seem unreasonable, everyone who isn't afraid of flying is now a fool? Nucle

So because I was in an airplane crash and developed a fear of flying, which doesn't seem unreasonable, everyone who isn't afraid of flying is now a fool? Nuclear is not free of risks, that goes without saying. But the risks in mining uranium, operating the plants, and storage or repurposing of the waste are still lower than a million people installing solar panels on rooftops. Accidents happen and we should minimize them. Trying to live zero risk by cutting out what bit you before rather than what bit a lot of other people does not make sense. I'm not against solar, I'm not against nuclear. I'm for reducing the biggest sources of damage (coal, gas, cows, planes, etc.). We, densely populated Europe in particular, seem to be having a lot of trouble deploying land-consuming technologies like solar and wind at a rate that makes us likely not to trigger any runaway climate-affecting processes. I see nuclear as an option, on the expensive side but definitely not beyond what our western society can pay, that would make a big step ten years from the moment we commit to it (and cost-wise roughly on par with off-shore wind, cheaper or more expensive depending on who you ask, so cost is apparently not the problem in any country that deploys significant amounts of off-shore wind). I just can't decide whether there's still hope of rationality in this debate, especially being involved with brainwashed climate activists that somehow convinced themselves it's super dangerous (that's demonstrably untrue) and a few of them know details like that it's more expensive (but never know by how much (~2x according to UK and USA studies, I can lookup the links tomorrow (1:30am here)), nor can they explain how France doesn't have crazy energy prices (<2x compared to countries with nearly zero nuclear) with 70% of the power coming from nuclear, nor are they opposed to other solutions that would mean increasing the cost by as much if that gets us to CO2 neutrality)...