Comment by AnthonyMouse

> When dealing with nuclear accidents entire populations are forced into life changing evacuations, if all goes well.

There have been multiple nuclear accidents in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reactor_accidents_in_t...

Which of them resulted in "entire populations [] forced into life changing evacuations"? Which ones were the implied something worse than that and what happened then?

> For renewables the only harm that comes are for the people who has chosen to work in the industry.

Solar panels are essentially semiconductors. "Silicon valley" is called that because they used to actually make such things there. You can tell from the number of superfund sites.

"The newer ones are safer" has a certain symmetry to it, right?

> And the workplace hazards are the same as any other industry working with heavy things and electric equipment.

Those things are actually the dangerous things though? There were no fatalities from Three Mile Island but a plant worker at a nuclear power plant in Arkansas was killed and several others injured when a crane collapsed and a generator fell on them. Power company line workers have a worse-than-average fatality rate from getting electrocuted.