For those who think nuclear is less safe than the alternatives, all I can guess is there are no coal miners in their family tree, or they don't live near a refinery or a gas pipeline.
Many Americans understandably have a phobia about nuclear and I sympathize, since you need to provide stringent safeguards and a regulatory framework around which to build an industry which is safest when standardized. This takes a certain aptitude for the collective which America patently is hopeless at. European countries (other than Belgium and France) have no such excuse except maybe the UK which shares America's economic ideological fetishes to some extent.
But just because it doesn't work in America anymore doesn't mean it shouldn't be a part of our energy future in the West, in much the same way just because gay marriage won't work in Saudi Arabia doesn't mean it isn't an idea whose time has come for advanced Western social democracies.
Sorry I got off topic but that's the pastis and then dinner talking, great game, great game. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
Cars kill lots more people than airplanes no matter how you measure it, but people have no problems driving in cars because "behind the wheel" you feel in control of the situation.
You can choose to go into a coal mine, but you can't choose to not live within 1000 miles of a nuclear power plant. (At least not in North America or Europe.)
It doesn't matter how many nuclear accidents there have been so far, or how many people have been killed (which is a debateable number), but whether you have a choice to live "near" one.
