@daw @moshpirit @mcscx I agree the long term effects must be taken into account, radiation kills slowly if you are not higly exposed. In addition to that nobody takes reactor safety seriously in practice, even in the west. Just look into the news, there are lots and lots of (mostly old) nuclear power plants with serious problems all over europe but they are kept running. Nuclear power is also rather expensive but costs get hidden because building the plants was heavily subsidized, running them is cheap and as we see now e.g. in Germany, companies did not set aside enough money to tear them down afterwards. Let alone the costs of an accident like in Fukushima. I also do not believe the waste problem to be solved until i see it. "Put it under the ground and you are done" is what people once belived, now we know it's basically safer to do the opposite. And btw: uranium mining isn't exactly that unproblematic either and the material is also finite (not an issue right now but might be in the future if highly used)