We've had numerous power plant incidents throughout history, all attributable to human arrogance and incompetence - some of which have left thousands of square

We've had numerous power plant incidents throughout history, all attributable to human arrogance and incompetence - some of which have left thousands of square miles uninhabitable and given millions elevated cancer risks, caused widespread contamination of entire regions of the sea, etc. There's pages worth of military-related incidents, including things like reactor fires that ejected huge plumes of highly radioactive fallout. There have been numerous incidents in nuclear processing. One resulted in the murder of a journalist to cover it up. Hanford took decades to clean up (I think they've finally finished?) We spent decades blowing up nuclear weapons for giggles, causing so much fallout to spread worldwide that almost all steel these days has radioactive fallout in it, and many things can be dated by the decay of fallout in them because it's so widespread. The US alone has lost several functional nuclear weapons. The policy around nuclear waste in much of the US and elsewhere was, and often still is, "stick it in a hole. In containers that can rust. In water." Strange definition of "managed very well."