> Excessive nuclear safety regulations cost more lives than they save by slowing the transition away from fossil fuels. Maybe. It seems premature to reach that

> Excessive nuclear safety regulations cost more lives than they save by slowing the transition away from fossil fuels. Maybe. It seems premature to reach that judgment. It depends how many lives regulations would save by hypothetically preventing nuclear catastrophe. I agree with you about the problems of fossil fuel use. Nevertheless, I think those health dangers are more palatable to politicians and the general public because they are gradual and dispersed, and therefore ignorable; whereas even a single, mild nuclear incident would produce massive negative press.