Worse case accident for solar:
Ow. I dropped the solar panel on my foot.
For nuclear:
Oops, we destroyed $270B of real estate.
Ow. I dropped the solar panel on my foot.
For nuclear:
Oops, we destroyed $270B of real estate.
Oops, we spent $270B on solar panels that can't provide enough power.
The problem is that the diesel generators that were supposed to provide backup power to the cooling systems got swamped, basically making meltdown inevitable with the design of the reactor.
Edit:extraneous words removed