> When something goes wrong it can easily go terribly wrong. I encourage you to look at the numbers for yourself. The equivalent baseload power technologies ar

> When something goes wrong it can easily go terribly wrong. I encourage you to look at the numbers for yourself. The equivalent baseload power technologies are all WAY more dangerous. Go and tally up the human casualties from nuclear over its entire history. Use the most damning numbers you can possibly find. Go ahead and include the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki if you like. Include any count of potential cancer cases too. Even using the most biased, openly political casualty counts you can find, it is challenging to get to 1.5 million over the entire history of the power source. If you stick to relatively credible sources you'll certainly be below half a million. Now look at the human casualties from coal when it's working properly. No accidents, just regular power production. The first duckduckgo result for me estimates about 8.7 million deaths per year, not including accidents, bombs, or non fatal casualties. The casualty rate from nuclear's entire history doesn't even approach the death rate from coal, oil, or gas in a single year. > nuclear waste One person lifetime of electricity creates about 350ml (about a coke can) of solid nuclear waste. We know where that waste is, and what it is doing. We can monitor and control access and keep people away from it. In contrast, one person lifetime of coal power produces hundreds of thousands of TONS of waste, much of which is also radioactive, but lets not forget about the toxic heavy metals and carbon. Most of that waste goes into the atmosphere, where it cannot be tracked or controlled at all, and where it causes millions of deaths per year. To be fair a lot of it goes into the water and ground, too. The fact that there are options AT ALL for nuclear waste puts it miles ahead of the competition. Nuclear is by far the lowest carbon, safest, lowest waste universally available baseload power source ever invented. Casualties from nuclear aren't even a rounding error compared to the alternatives on the table. You are absolutely right however, that it is highly volatile politically. https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldw... is a nice reference for easy comparison, but really, duckduckgo it yourself.