On: Nuclear power is the only green solution (2004)

[pjc50]

It's not impossible for fossil accidents to be that bad; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buncefield_fire are the ones from the UK I remember, but the biggest may be the huge poisioning of the Bhopal disaster which is technically more the chemical industry's fault.

But the big shadow behind nuclear is weapons proliferation. From the 60s onwards nuclear bombs brought the possibility that there might be a civilisation-destroying nuclear exchange, and as the discourse around Iran has shown it's quite difficult for bystanders to distinguish between the two.