Don’t talk about people being irrational when you are so purposely distorting the risks of nuclear power.
It is not an unreasonable position to be in favor of nuclear and to believe that technology can be contained and used safely. But you don’t do your argument any favors when you dive into the sublime.
It is irrational when you cannot appreciate the comparision to the radiation encountered in everyday life to the radiation emitted by a nuclear power plant. Apparently many still get the nuclear shiver when they make no effort to educate themselves about the construction of a nuclear power plant or the operation.
Do some fact checking about what happened with TMI. Other than the media scaring the hell out of people, there was minimal radiation released. That was a meltdown BTW.
What distortion? Coal power plants do release more radiation and radioactive material than nuclear power plants. The spill of a fly ash slurry pond at the Kingston plant in Roane County, Tennessee released about 1.5 tons worth of uranium into the watershed, for example, and coal plants routinely emit radioactive materials during normal operation.
As more and more people buy their own Geiger counters in the wake of this situation, this dirty little secret will start to get out.