[NicknamedBob]

The safety record of nuclear energy, if you count every aspect of it, from the mining of the ore, to the assembly of the pile, has been without human parallel in caution.

But if you compare it similarly to other techniques, from wood-burning steam generators to hydro-electric dams, to the collection of gas for electrical generators, the danger aspects of other forms overwhelm any risk from uranium handling.

Here's an example from page 73, referring to radiation exposure:

Sources of Radiation Received by Average U.S. Citizen (Annual)

• Cosmic Rays. . . . . . . . 35
  
• Building Materials . . . . 35
  
• Food. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
  
• Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
  
• Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
  
• Own Blood (K-40). . . . 20
  
  
  
• Nuclear Power Plant. . . .003
  
• If lived next to. . . . . . . . 5

If you lived right next door to the nuclear power plant, you'd probably be getting more radiation exposure from the concrete in that massive building than from the uranium inside it.

[sionnsar]

I’m sure I get a whole lot more just in the amount of time I spend sitting in airplanes.

[sionnsar]

A less than positive story on Slashdot.

[sionnsar]

Osmotic power plant plus some questionable things.