[prestadige]

Wrong, perhaps, but 'badly' wrong? Despite the accident, building Fukushima saved lives and reduced atmospheric pollution relative to other power sources.

Part of the reason we haven't improved reactor designs as rapidly as we should is due to irrational fears surrounding nuclear power. In other words, such fears have to some extent been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[idlewords]

The fears aren't so irrational. They reflect the fact that we don't know how to assess and manage risk over the kinds of timescales required to safely handle nuclear waste.

[Turing_Machine]

After a couple of hundred years the waste is no more radioactive than the ore from which it came.

Although the fear-mongers never mention this,"long half-life" means "less radioactive". By definition.