Exactly. The problem now is the extreme lag time to build new ones vs solar and wind. However having some truly base load facilities still makes me want more built.

Vast majority of power should be renewables and storage and I think for this community of Lemmy that is preaching to the choir.

If you strictly go off the number of deaths and shortened lives from cancer added up to years of a life even Chernobyl is in the 50-300 death range. To be fair I don’t have a source for that at the moment and am going off memory. Hydro has had far worse single events in terms of deaths. There are even car racing incidents around the 80 deaths range. So I just never understand nuclear fear if run under a set of actually enforced regulations.