Of course not, humans doing such complex and dangerous things are a bit smarter than your average Homer’s situation comedy. Your scathing opinion is perfect for the oil and gas industry, though.
Alright. Call me when those bright candles have found a permanent long term solution to radioactive waste disposal.
So far, I’ve noticed we’re still leaving several cores’ worth of highly radioactive spent fuel sitting in a pool next to the core containment vessel. Just a SNAFU away from blowing into everyone’s living room...
But that’s only temporarily, of course! They’re smart enough to know it’s not a permanent solution; just a lifetime long.
Sure. But all of that, even projected centuries into the future, still kills fewer people than die by falling from a height while installing wind turbines. Accidents happen in every industry in which humans are involved, we shouldn't apply a double standard (just as, if equally radioactive coal ash is considered safe to just dump, we should probably dump a lot of our nuclear waste in the same way).
Note that even if you stop nuclear power completely, the "nuclear waste" problem still exists. There's still a bunch of radioactive Uranium naturally occurring in various parts of the world. Is that an urgent problem?
Mind, I am not saying that you are wrong, nuclear today is not a commercially viable option in the West anymore. The point is that digging holes is easier and dirtier than nuclear fission, which is why candles had to be bright to make nuclear happen in first instance. That said, the trade-off seems unfavorable right now, even without considering waste.
