Chernobyl, famously, did not have a containment building around it. We don't build reactors like that. In addition today you can build reactors which simply do

Chernobyl, famously, did not have a containment building around it. We don't build reactors like that. In addition today you can build reactors which simply do not have the failure modes that led to either Chernobyl or Fukushima. > Researchers have estimated that about 1 in 5 deaths globally can be attributed to fossil fuels through air pollution alone This is a pet peeve of mine. They always use flimsiest of statistics to "attribute it" so, but never mention how many people would die if it _wasn't_ for fossil fuels. The number would be in the billions. Much of Canada, and all of Russia's north would freeze to death. People in Africa, India and China would starve. Industry (and with it livelihoods of billions of people worldwide) would collapse. Europe would erupt in a war. And so on. Hardly a wortwhile tradeoff. And no, it is not possible to replace all uses of fossil fuels with electricity. Not now, not in the foreseeable future.