[Mikeb85]

> Nuclear Fission? Safe?

Nuclear power and uranium mining is far cleaner and safer than coal, oil/gas, even hydro. Coal mining, hydro accidents, and the various deaths from oil/gas extraction, power plant accidents, etc..., far outstrip deaths from nuclear power plant accidents. Not to mention the health costs that coal has inflicted on the world, the amount of people displaced and ecosystems destroyed by hydro, and so on. Nuclear power gets a bad rap, but statistically speaking, is rather safe.

[kuschku]

For the people who end up having to live with contaminated tap water and only learn about it decades later (see Leukämiecluster Elbmarsch for example) it ends up having similar, or worse, results than coal, though.

And especially the waste issue isn't easily solvable.