Actually one of the newest trend in architecture are large scale buildings made from (fire-proof!) wood
> Chernobyl was looked at by an international panel of scientist and engineers and early death related to it are below 1500. And many of those people live to pretty old age still.
Yeah and 600,000 people worked as liquidators.
I think a lot of those arguments (in fact on both sides) are overly nitpicky and based on niche facts making reasonable discussions next to impossible.
Nuclear seems this simplistic choice where the risk is shifted to somewhere where nobody can see it. Nobody knows about missing Core catchers, failure modes or insurance.
That said, new Nuclear plants are actually more expensive (LCOE) than other Energy forms with the exception of on-demand Gas