Personally nuclear energy is dangerous because when it goes wrong the result is really bad.
And the source of error is infinite, human, software, design, terrorists, war, civil plane, drone ...
Personally nuclear energy is dangerous because when it goes wrong the result is really bad.
And the source of error is infinite, human, software, design, terrorists, war, civil plane, drone ...
26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from subsequent famine and epidemics, 11 million homeless
All forms of power generation have risks and tradeoffs. We should use the best available science to evaluate those risks - not emotion and fear. The future of our planet depends on it.
Also what do you even mean by "the source of error is infinite"? All of those sources of error apply to coal and gas plants, except that nuclear power plants are so much more tightly regulated and protected that these "sources of error" are far more likely to affect coal/gas plants than nuclear.
Check out this information where they crash an F-4 into 10 feet of concrete, reducing the F-4 to dust. Nuclear power reactor containment shields have more than 10 feet of concrete, and even so have procedures for automatic shutdown of the fission process that don't rely on electricity (eg gravity).
FUD such as this is a large part of why we do not have fission today.
I counter this statement of vast ignorance with a single example who represents many more: my grandfather. The EEOICPA seems to think that he and thousands of others died as a result of it. It's really interesting to juxtapose this smug indifference to cumulative millennia of life lost with the statistical straws grasped at in order to impute some deaths to coal power. It's almost as if no argument is too ridiculous to excavate from an orifice in the service of nuclear power.