Please refrain from putting these 2 in the same bucket. Fracking does lots of localized and non-local pollution. Nuclear is contained and way safer for humans.
One could argue it is nominally safe.
Except when it de-contains itself.
I get that it’s a a form of clean energy and we kind of need that in the EU but a remote, “protected”, isolated location would be my first choice.
Every plant doesn't operate in a silo (well, it does in a physical sense), the operating knowledge and expertise is shared far and wide to help keep another Three Mile Island or another Fukushima from happening. I enjoy watching the training in action from the control room simulators.[1]
Just let me hunker down in the FLEX shelter when the time comes.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuLuQvxJTpQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXfuuWfyP6Y is nice and soothing.