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Even including the highest profile disasters, nuclear is still massively safer than most other forms of energy.

Yes, the diffuse damage is much higher.

Btw, there's another problem with nuclear: because of politicking and public opinion, it's very expensive and almost impossible to build new nuclear power plants.

Budget and schedule overruns are to be expected.

So capital costs are very high.



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