[anton96]

No, Fukushima proved them right.

Fukushima ended in no way like Tchernobyl did.

The Soviet power plan released radioactivity in the air, make an entire area inhabitable and killed a few dozen a people.

Fukushima did nothing of this, everything stayed inside the structure, no radioactivity went out.

As Fukushima had no recovery generators available (no fuel in them), it is a great proof that a totally out of control modern power plant is not deadly.

[fsh]

The Fukushima disaster cleanup cost a trillion dollars. Over a hundred thousand people were (at least temporarily) displaced. I would call this a pretty darn big failure.

[Schroedingersat]

The trillion dollar figure is a bit of a stretch and includes a lot of stuff that didn't need to happen or was double counted.

Less motivated reasoning gives about $300bn which would still be enough to easily replace every coal and oil plant in the country with renewables (as well as half of the gas).