Re: its hard to find anyone who has died from radiation, anywhere in the world.
> Second, you might remember a little event called Three Mile Island ? The one that started the whole "nukular is BAAAD" craze ? There again, Google is your friend.
TMI emitted a small amount of radioactive steam. The bigger problem there was the public panic.
That said, water-moderated nuclear plants are a spectacularly bad idea, despite being several hundred thousand times safer than coal(*). Molten salts are the logical way forward, in large part because they mean there's no radioactive water/steam to contend with when things go wrong.
(*) http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html
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