I mean, it seems a bit like using the Bhopal disaster as an argument to not build any more chemical plants, or the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster as an argument to stop using passenger ships. Chernobyl was a flawed design incompetently operated.
> And what is your solution for storing nuclear waste safely for hundreds of thousands of years?
While it's a problem, it's actually a fairly tractable one, because the volume of high level waste is small and it doesn't leave the plant as part of normal operations. For coal power, for contrast, we store much of the waste in peoples' lungs.
> And what is your solution for storing nuclear waste safely for hundreds of thousands of years?
While it's a problem, it's actually a fairly tractable one, because the volume of high level waste is small and it doesn't leave the plant as part of normal operations. For coal power, for contrast, we store much of the waste in peoples' lungs.