Mismanagement and greed are everywhere though. Coal plants don't have to dump CO2 and toxic chemicals into the atmosphere in massive quantities, but foregoing s

Mismanagement and greed are everywhere though. Coal plants don't have to dump CO2 and toxic chemicals into the atmosphere in massive quantities, but foregoing scrubbers and carbon capture saves money. Solar panels can be recycled reducing both pollution from manufacturing and disposal, but throwing them in landfills saves money. Falls from great heights maintaining windfarms can be avoided with proper safety equipment and training, but that costs money. Dams can be prevented from bursting with proper inspections, but that costs money. The difference though is where coal kills many tens of thousands per year and a single dam burst typically has a death toll in the hundreds, the worst accident at a nuclear power plant this century has had 1 death attributed to it. More people have died from building collapses in the past 2 years than from nuclear power over its entire history. Nuclear power is just fundamentally a technology where it is really difficult for mismangagement and greed to produce harm. It takes a lot of bad decisions and bad luck to get any substantial quantity of nuclear material anywhere near potential victims, the wider the affected area, the less potent the threat, and simply leaving the area after the accident is an effective defense. Pretty much the only way to get substantial casualties from nuclear power is to deliberately disable safety features, blow up a reactor, prevent people from evacuating or taking other precautions for an extended period of time while actively suppressing information, and forcing hundreds of thousands of poorly trained and equipped people into the still burning reactor building and not letting them out before they've gotten far more than a safe dose. If you live in a place where that level of mismanagement is possible, you probably have bigger problems.