[tptacek]

The financial bill for mitigating the damages being caused to the environment (not to mention foreign policy) by fossil fuels is dwarfing that of nuclear power.

A "severe" accident results in loss of life, or in square kilometers of land unexpectedly rendered unusable for habitation or agriculture.

[AJ007]

The worst case scenario for global warming involves a change in climate so devastating that the earth may be able to feed little more than 100 million humans and may take hundreds of thousands of years to return to the point we are at now. It makes the dangers posed by nuclear energy seem fairly trivial.

I have yet to read any worst case scenarios for nuclear energy accidents which are anywhere comparable to this.

[wtn]

Oh nice point. People don't think of all the various costs.

Lots of people die in mining accidents and mining byproducts cause water pollution.

NO2 emissions are horrid for human health—I don't have death count numbers at hand.