Large proportions of coal plants spew uranium particles into the atmosphere. That's the radioactivity I worry about.

> Also, I'm always fascinated of the "Chernobyl was unsafe, today reactors are safe" argument. The exact same line was fed to us when Chernobyl was state of the art.

And yet the death toll of Chernobyl turned out to be a tiny fraction of what was feared, and a blib compared to the death tolls from coal and other types.

Two of the reactors kept being operated for years. That's how small of a problem it turned out to be.

> There are good reasons to think that it may indeed be so this time. But the nuclear industry has lost all trust and all right to demand anyone ever trusted them again.

On the contrary they have demonstrated that the plants are safe enough that even in face of utter incompetency and criminal levels of negligence, nuclear disasters are manageable.

Unlike, say, collapsing damns, or coal plants that kill during normal operation.