And if you build more people will die in the next big accident. There is no doubt that there will be a next accident. For Chernobyl you can say criminal neglect was part of the system in the USSR. 3 Mile Island happenend in the world leader in technology. Japan used to have the reputation of having high security standards. Until Fukushima happened and they did not have the situation under control. There will always something fail, regardless how well it's designed. Not necessarily this year or not even in 5. But most of us still intend to live for decades, I'd assume.
If a Jumbo crashes you expect around 400 death. If 2 crash into each other it's twice as many (search for Tenerife if you are too young to remember). If you build 2 skyscrapers for 16,000 employees you risk 16,000 deaths if the worst happens ("Less" than 3000 died, so the cold facts aren't that bad after all.) If you build build a nuclear power station with millions of people around, you risk many more deaths. Not everyone of them immediately, but cancers caused by radiation will continue for decades. Building such things is engineer hubris and some day something worse than what we have seen so far will happen.
Fossil fuel burning pollution kills millions every year even with no accidents.[1]
> "If you build build a nuclear power station with millions of people around, you risk many more deaths."
Don't build it near millions of people. See this map of the UK[2]; London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Sheffield are where the most people are, and where the nuclear power plants aren't.
3 Mile Island has not killed anybody AFAIK, but it showed the the world's leading tech nation failed completely in responding to the accident. Some facts could be found only years later when the reactor could be inspected and others will remain in the dark forever because they just could not be collected in time. You want to trust a technology where even accidents without fatalities cannot be investigated?
For Chernobyl the overall death toll is estimated between 50 and 4000. Nobody knows and nobody knows how to even count. How do you count the disabled and sick babies born after it?
For Fukushima 1600 fatalities were reported during evacution. I am not an expert, but I guess it's difficult to attribute because the whole area was devastated already by the tsunami.
There will be lucky outcomes also in the future. But if you have hundreds of thousands or millions of people around, some day we'll be out of luck.
So your nuclear power caused death count over 4 decades is roughly 5000 people? I think we killed more people than that trying to make a non stick pan.
If a Jumbo crashes you expect around 400 death. If 2 crash into each other it's twice as many (search for Tenerife if you are too young to remember). If you build 2 skyscrapers for 16,000 employees you risk 16,000 deaths if the worst happens ("Less" than 3000 died, so the cold facts aren't that bad after all.) If you build build a nuclear power station with millions of people around, you risk many more deaths. Not everyone of them immediately, but cancers caused by radiation will continue for decades. Building such things is engineer hubris and some day something worse than what we have seen so far will happen.