Agreed we need more nuclear power. The reason why it's so safe is that it can afford to be. If you put that kind of safety on a coal plant coal based electricity would cost thousands of times what it does today. So coal plants are free to pollute the area, it also doesn't help that people are irrationally afraid of radiation. Yes it can be dangerous, but you should compare it to other risk factors like particulates.
Also there is a lot we could do with the spent fuel that we don't do. For-instance, we could re-use used fuel like France does, but that creates a lot of weapons grade material which is a concern. But even if buried, the burial site doesn't need to last for hundreds of years, after a mere 300 or so the risk is down to the level as if we had never dug it up in the first place. The thousands of years is purely due to the excessive safety surrounding nuclear power. Imagine if refineries had to be that safe. How many refineries released toxic sludge into the ocean and land after the tsunami? How many people where killed in refinery fires? A lot more than the few that got the equivalent of sunburn from the nuclear plant.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
Also there is a lot we could do with the spent fuel that we don't do. For-instance, we could re-use used fuel like France does, but that creates a lot of weapons grade material which is a concern. But even if buried, the burial site doesn't need to last for hundreds of years, after a mere 300 or so the risk is down to the level as if we had never dug it up in the first place. The thousands of years is purely due to the excessive safety surrounding nuclear power. Imagine if refineries had to be that safe. How many refineries released toxic sludge into the ocean and land after the tsunami? How many people where killed in refinery fires? A lot more than the few that got the equivalent of sunburn from the nuclear plant.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."