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Originally Posted by Natalya
Nuclear has been perennially dogged by safety and environmental concerns. The emissions from the plants themselves are clean, but the waste produced at the plant, and more importantly (but rarely talked about) the waste at the mining and refining sites, is incredibly hazardous and hard to deal with.
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That just isn't so. Nuclear is, by its track record, far safer than coal (quite apart from AGW) or hydro, or arguably even solar & wind. Its problem is simply the bad press (maybe left over from all those Godzilla movies?) that has instilled an "Omigawd it's radioactive, we're all gonna DIE!" knee-jerk reaction in the hard-of-thinking.