Care is certainly called for, but the way it&#x27;s treated goes too far. Waste is a good example. People insist on perfect safety, and not just for today, but insist on storing waste so that in a hypothetical future 10,000 years from now when civilization has fallen and nobody knows what nuclear anything is, the waste is <i>still</i> safe. This is just not reasonable, and does more harm than good.<p>The problem is that you get people who think you&#x27;ll glow in the dark if you live near a perfectly functioning power plant, then you get people on the other side who say it&#x27;s fine to drink plutonium, and both sets of crazies are louder than any reasonable discussion in the middle.