Well somebody has to talk about it, and people don't seem to trust the people who really are experts on nuclear safety, because they all seem to work for the nuclear industry.
I put more stock into Bill Gates' opinion than random-internet-person though, not just because he's smart but because he has been spending the last decade in the habit of dispassionately ooking through actuarial tables and thinking about real dangers. That's why so much of his philanthrophic efforts are going towards unsexy things like malaria reduction -- because he and his staff decided to look dispassionately at the statistics and figure out where the greatest lives-saved-per-million-spent is.
If he's telling me that nuclear is safer than coal then I believe he's gone and genuinely satisfied himself that this is the actual statistical truth.
I put more stock into Bill Gates' opinion than random-internet-person though, not just because he's smart but because he has been spending the last decade in the habit of dispassionately ooking through actuarial tables and thinking about real dangers. That's why so much of his philanthrophic efforts are going towards unsexy things like malaria reduction -- because he and his staff decided to look dispassionately at the statistics and figure out where the greatest lives-saved-per-million-spent is.
If he's telling me that nuclear is safer than coal then I believe he's gone and genuinely satisfied himself that this is the actual statistical truth.