We’ve fucked up a lot of nuclear reactors? At my count it’s 2. 2 out of over 400 over 60? Years.

And while solar is great, you still need base-load and for most places in most cases solar + storage can’t do that.

2, one in the Soviet Union with known-to-be unsafe technology with bad incentives around control. The other happened as the result of the biggest recorded tsunami in Japan and human error, again.

With that said, cooling reactors need a bit of rethinking with this warmup, rivers may no longer be fine to use.

not to mention coal kills more people via radiation yearly then have died from those 2 reactor accidents

> I don't know why people just pretend there hasn't been any ultra costly nuclear incidents.

The costs from climate change far exceeds the cleanup and damage costs from all nuclear accidents combined.

Even if we spammed nuclear reactors I still don't think a proportional increase in nuclear accidents would come anywhere near the damages from climate change.

The advantage of nuclear energy is that it will only pollute a large area in a disaster. While fossil fuels spread their pollution constantly over the entire planet by design, no disaster required.

As bad as Fukushima and Chernobyl were, they're not barren wastelands. They're just more radioactive, increasing the risks of cancer, birth defects and what not. You can go visit both places. The fear over nuclear accidents is displaced compared to all the damage from fossil fuels.

The absolute worst case disaster of Chernobyl actually lead to situation that many environmental activist want. A area of nature entirely left alone. With some increase in side effects on animal population, but in general thriving ecosystem.

Doesn't honestly seem too bad scenario. And being cynic, isn't population reduction the most effective way to combat climate change anyway?