> I have no car, I don't fly on planes, I don't want to have a nuclear station near to me. Even though you don't fly, a plane can still fall on you. Wait! Hea

> I have no car, I don't fly on planes, I don't want to have a nuclear station near to me. Even though you don't fly, a plane can still fall on you. Wait! Hear me out -- in the entire history of the country, there have been a total of 13 fatalities as a result of accidents in nuclear plants in the U.S.[1], whereas aircraft falling from the sky killed: * 23 people in Wichita when a B-52 stratofortress crashed into their homes in 1965 [2] * 22 people died (including 12 children) when an F-86 Sabre crashed into a car and then slammed into an ice cream parlor in Sacramento in 1972 [3] * 15 died when a DC-9 collided with a Piper mid-air and then slammed into a residential neighborhood in Cerritos, CA in 1986 [5] * 13 died in 1967 in New Orleans when a DC-8 crashed into a private homes and a motel [6] * 12 died in Evansville, Indiana when a C-130 crashed into the parking lot of JoJo's restaurant in 1992 [7] * 10 people in an office building in Chicago in 1920 (but that was a dirigible)[8] * 9 people on a freeway in Georgia 1977[9] * 9 people in their homes in Chicago in 1959[10] * 8 people in their homes in New Orleans in 1982[11] * 7 people in their homes in New Jersey in 1972[12] * 7 people in their homes in San Diego in 1978[13] * 6 people in homes or parks in New York in 1960[14] * 6 people in Miami in 1960 [15] * 5 people in their homes in Queens in 2001 [16] * 5 people in their homes in Minneapolis in 1956 [17] * 4 people in an apartment building in New Jersey [18] * 4 people on a bridge in D.C. in 1982 [19] * 4 people in their homes in San Diego in 2008 [20] * 4 people in their homes in Yorba Linda in 2019 [21] * 3 people in a church in the San Fernando Valley in 1957 [22] * 3 people in their homes in North Hollywood in 1962 [23] * 3 people (two decapitated by helicopter blades and one crushed by aforementioned helicopter) in Hollywood in 1982 [24] * 3 people who were attending a flight safety conference died when a cessna crashed into the conference building in Wichita in 2014 [25] * 3 people in their homes in Gaithersburg, Maryland in 2014 [26] * 2 people in a house in Minneapolist in 1950 [27] * 2 people in their house died when a 737 crashed into a residential neighborhood in 1972 [28] * 2 people in a trailer park died when a DC-10 crashed into them in 1979 [29] * 2 people in car died when an MD-82 crashed into them in Michigan in 1987 [30] * 2 people killed when a prop plane crashed into their home in New Jersey in 2013 [31] And many, many other examples. So you see, not only is nuclear power safer than flying, it's much safer than being on the ground as well! Sources: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_accidents_in_the_United_States#List_of_accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_accidents_in_t... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_USAF_KC-135_Wichita_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_USAF_KC-135_Wichita_crash [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Sacramento_Canadair_Sabre_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Sacramento_Canadair_Sabre... [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroméxico_Flight_498#Accident_summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroméxico_Flight_498#Accident... [6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines#Accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines#Accidents_and_... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evansville_Regional_Airport#Major_Accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evansville_Regional_Airport#Ma... [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfoot_Air_Express_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingfoot_Air_Express_crash [9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Airways_Flight_242 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Airways_Flight_242 [10] https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19591124-0 https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19591124-... [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_759 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_759 [12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_6780 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_6780 [13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Flight_182 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Southwest_Airlines_Fli... [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_New_York_mid-air_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_New_York_mid-air_collisio... [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicana_de_Aviación#Accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominicana_de_Aviación#Acciden... [16] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587 [17] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_accidents_and_incidents_by_number_of_ground_fatalities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_accidents_and... [18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_101 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_101 [19] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Florida_Flight_90 [20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_San_Diego_F/A-18_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_San_Diego_F/A-18_crash [21] https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/221520 https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/221520 [22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_San_Diego_F/A-18_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_San_Diego_F/A-18_crash [23] https://dotlibrary.specialcollection.net/Document?db=DOT-AIRPLANEACCIDENTS&query=(select+752) https://dotlibrary.specialcollection.net/Document?db=DOT-AIR... [24] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident [25] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wichita_King_Air_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Wichita_King_Air_crash [26] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_Phenom_100#Incidents_and_accidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_Phenom_100#Incidents_a... [27] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines_Flight_307 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Orient_Airlines_Flig... [28] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_553 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_553 [29] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_191 [30] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_255 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Airlines_Flight_255 [31] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweed_New_Haven_Airport#Accidents_and_incidents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweed_New_Haven_Airport#Accide...