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by opo 3246 days ago
>...I was a supporter of Nuclear, though Fukushima taught me a very important lesson.

You missed the important lessons from Fukishima.

A major power plant suffered about the worst possible catastrophe that it could have through a combination of incompetence by the plant and its regulators. For all that, the highest estimates of death due to the evacuation are less than the deaths that come from a day of burning coal (when the coal plants don't have an accident). What about other power sources? Coal/gas/hydro all have much worse records than nuclear:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

(The accident rate is also ignoring the long term, possibly existential, threat from climate changed due to using coal and natural gas.)

Ground based solar is probably the only power source that might be safer than nuclear.