The numbers you bring up are insignificant at the scales involved. > Case in point: almost 40 years later, the Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone is still quite

The numbers you bring up are insignificant at the scales involved. > Case in point: almost 40 years later, the Chernobyl Absolute Exclusion Zone is still quite literally 1000 square miles. Whole 1000 square miles? Looks like the habitable area of Earth is 24,642,757 square miles. That only leaves us with 24,642,757 - 1,000 = 24,641,757 square miles to work with. We are doomed. > Fukushima will cost billions in maintenance for decades to come, so far has cost >$70 billionn and will likely approach $1 trillion byh the time it's all over [2]. That's it? "The United States' reliance on coal to generate almost half of its electricity, costs the economy about $345 billion a year in hidden expenses not borne by miners or utilities, including health problems in mining communities and pollution around power plants, a study found." [1] "[...] in the United States, particle pollution from existing coal power plants is expected to cause some 13,200 premature deaths in 2010, as well as 9,700 additional hospitalizations and some 20,000 heart attacks. [...] The report found that the total monetized value of these adverse health impacts add up to more than $100 billion per year." [2] "Air pollution caused by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7m deaths globally in 2018, a staggering one in five of all people who died that year, new research has found." [3] "Between 1999 and 2020, 460,000 deaths among people who got health coverage through Medicare were attributable to coal-fired plants, the new [US] study showed." [4] [1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-coal-study/coals-hidden-costs-top-345-billion-in-u-s-study-idUSN1628366220110216/ https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-coal-study/coals-hidden-... [2]: https://www.gem.wiki/Health_costs_of_coal_plants https://www.gem.wiki/Health_costs_of_coal_plants [3]: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/fossil-fuels-pollution-deaths-research https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/09/fossil-f... [4]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/23/health/coal-fired-plants-kill-more-people-particle-pollution/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/23/health/coal-fired-plants-..., https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf4915 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf4915