Fossil fuels are safe. They kill people, but they kill a fairly low and most of all predictable number of people. Theyre dangerous for a coal miner, but not for a country.

Nuclear power is generally pretty harmless. But when it fails, it has the potential to kill millions and render large parts of the country uninhabitable. That is danger.

I still think we should have gotten rid of coal before nuclear. But long-term, nuclear is not an acceptable power source.