why are people so paranoid about nuclear power. Coal plant just took a crap here, Nuclear plants took up the slack.?

Would you want to live next to a pile of radioactive dust? Do you have a safe place to store the waste for literally millions of years? Do you think it's wise to have a baseload dependent on 5 or less factories in the entire world?

There is no such thing as a free lunch. We need to reduce our energy-consumption, AND reduce the world-population, AND transition to "walkable cities".

People are stupid , or at best , simply irrational ..

Nuclear is, and should be , a necessary and significant part of our energy generating mix for the foreseeable future .

We have to have a base load generating capacity ,and a generating capacity that can back up "intermittent" power sources, such as solar and wind .And the least climate changing source is nuclear.

Only "blind" environmentalists can't see that .

Hmmmmmmm-.....let me think............Three Mile Island........Chernobyl. .......Fukishima.........which are now radioactive ghost towns..........Yeah, we keep claiming we KNOW what we are doing.........

well, three uninhabitable cities on the planet, say otherwise.

People fear nuclear power plants because they can meltdown/blow up and when they do, the fallout and carnage has the potential to kill immediately and for hundreds of years later from radiation. Nuclear power is clean and effective but unlike a coal mine fire or electrical power grid failure that can be contained or repaired quickly, nuclear plant disasters can be catastrophic for generations. See..Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima.

maybe 3 mile island or Chernobyl!

Chernobyl is the reason why. The town was destroyed by an accident in a nuclear reactor. Nobody wants to have a nuclear power plant in his ore her neighborhood.

Because of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and most recently the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan.

Because nuclear waste might kill us all in a thousand years when archaeologists dig it up by accident, which makes it 10,000,000x worse than global warming, which will KILL every single human on earth by the year 2030.