&gt; Which was nowhere close to as bad as Chernobyl.<p>Both were Level 7 accidents on INES scale. Fukushima release was about 1&#x2F;6th of Chernobyl, but ended up blowing 4&#x2F;5ths of its contents over the ocean. At some point, evacuation of Tokyo metro area was considered. Yeah no, both were pretty bad and the same magnitude events.<p>&gt; The bigger problem with this kind of fear is that you&#x27;re giving a pass to the coal industry (among other industries) which have far, far worse disasters regularly.<p>Fair point, but there&#x27;s not much coal use in Belarus (mostly natural gas), nor in Norway where I am now (clean energy from the dam to my car&#x27;s plug). For Belarus, the impact, in health, land and culture was incomparable to that of other energy accidents.<p>&gt; Modern breeder designs don&#x27;t have the waste problem.<p>Right, they have the weapon proliferation problem that you can&#x27;t design away.