Out of all major energy sources, nuclear is the safest
Before Chernobyl blew up, nuclear energy proponents promised us, nuclear energy was safe.<p>When Chernobyl blew up, it was obviously a stupid Soviet design, with stupid operating personnel. But now we&#x27;ve got new reactors, they are safe! Nothing could ever happen!<p>Then Fukushima blew up. That was obviously okay, because it was a Tsunami in conjunction with a few other improbable acts, and we obviously can&#x27;t expect the nuclear industry to plan for that!<p>So we&#x27;re now in the next round. Again, we&#x27;re totally safe. We&#x27;ve got passive reactors. Really disruptive (<i>g</i>) tech!<p>I&#x27;m sorry, I said it before and I said it again: proponents of nuclear energy have either been lying to us every single time over the last decades, or they can&#x27;t really manage nuclear energy.<p>I don&#x27;t care which one it is, and I don&#x27;t care whether they believe nuclear energy is safe now. They have been playing with catastrophes of a magnitude we can&#x27;t really comprehend, and the best they manage to do is &quot;it could have been even worse&quot; and &quot;we promise this was the last time&quot;.<p>As far as I&#x27;m concerned, I&#x27;m all for making sure it was the <i>last</i> time.