> I’m lucky to understand the risks that they’re talking about

> since I studied them in grad school. They’re talking about

> a baseline risk of serious accident of around 0.001%, or

> one in 100,000 years

Why are people still referring to these numbers when talking about nuclear safety? They are obviously off by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude.

We build about 250 nuclear plants over the past 50y, and we had two disasters that displaced thousands of peoples and made huge area inhabitable for centuries.