Comment by Kon5ole

>So we're not counting natural disasters that cause power infrastructure failure? I take it you don't consider the events of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami to be a nuclear accident then.

Of course not, if I did that's 20 000 dead from a "nuclear accident" right there. But that would be dishonest and silly, and I aim for rationality.

>And people in Scotland are in substantially greater danger from the emissions of coal plants in China

Not even if you assign all the blame of global warming to chinese coal plants would this be even remotely true.

>I don't see any reason to limit the discussion to electrical power plants.

You responded to a claim that no other power plant represent as great a risk at a nuclear power plant.

Maybe you should have created a new thread saying something like "a nuclear plant is not as bad as the entire fossil fuel industry worldwide"? ;-)

>The consequences are no worse than the dominant alternatives

You completely ignored the facts that clearly tell you that the consequences are orders of magnitude worse.

That's no way to convince anyone. Just saying.