One of the things I learned here is that Chernobyl still requires active cooling to some extent. The failure modes of nuclear fission power are just insane. Ye

One of the things I learned here is that Chernobyl still requires active cooling to some extent. The failure modes of nuclear fission power are just insane. Yes I think it's true that coal has killed far more people, but the economic cost of just one fission plant failure is so high that one serious incident destroys the economics of the entire program. It also tends to make fission power privately uninsurable since once incident would bankrupt the insurance company within weeks. How much renewable energy and storage could you buy for the containment and cleanup cost associated with Fukushima?