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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima - Unit 4 spent fuel removal >99% complete [View all]No source of power generation is 100% safe.
Heck... few things are 100% safe yet we live with them every day. Nuclear power is obviously much safer than living along the seafront in Japan, yet how many people there are debating whether or not to rebuild in the areas destroyed by the tsunami? The "big one" will eventually strike California and kill lots of people... yet how many question whether or not cities along those faults should continue to exist?
And, as you pointed out so correctly, there are sources of power that continue to kill millions of people (and will certainly end the lives of far more through climate change if they aren't stopped)... yet there are actually people who consider themselves sane who argue that we should end nuclear power now and get around to fossil fuels some time in the distant future.