The long term plan is to shut down all coal plants. In the US alone coal usage has more than halved since 2008.

Of course people want to close coal power stations too. One might argue about the relative timing, but the goal is to get rid of nuclear and coal. And while a safely operating nuclear plant is actually pretty low on radiation, we unfortunately had severe incidents which released a lot of radiation. Here in Bavaria, the forests are still contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Wild boar meat still has to be checked for radiation and a lot of it destroyed as not fit for consumption. Never mind the meat which probably gets eaten unchecked.

This is pure whataboutism.

Silent downvotes, nice. The amount of nuclear shilling here...

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So is bitching about nuclear while ignoring the much worse coal.

No one is ignoring coal lmao

People complaining about nuclear power are mostly concerned with cost and time needed for construction and no loosening regulations is not an option.