I don ' t want you to take it personally because it ' s normal to fear something that is so powerful it powers the fucking sun but here ' s some info that might change your mind . Here ' s the funny thing about all of those . Fukushima was hit by a tsunami which by the way , no fucking coal plant can handle . Chernobyl was built in 1972 . by russians . It ' s considered one of the least safe reactor designs coming from the 50 s and other designs are far more promising . Fermi # 1 was a prototype that received a partial fuel meltdown and no nuclear material was released . 3 Mile Island was a partial meltdown that released radioactivity into the atmosphere . All of these designs are old and have virtually not been improved because of problems like people fearing nuclear energy and cost nuclear power is great but you can ' t build a ' small ' plant since most plants are bigger than comparable coal plants because nuclear has additional safeties and they cost a lot . Now , let ' s compare against coal mining deaths in the years since 1972 ChernobylSource can add them up if you ' d like to . If you ' d like some info about the most dangerous power types , here ' s the wikipedia table each with their own stats . interesting thing is that coal power plants release more nuclear material into the atmosphere than nuclear plants which really puts that whole I don ' t want a nuclear plant near Timmy . when he can just bake in nuclear material from the nearby coal plantSource a s h i s m o r e r a d i o a c t i v ethannuclearwasteOriginal Paper that when the news tells you something , they ' re going for biggest shock . Because it drives ratings .