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What if he burned down every house within 50 miles and the landscape didn’t recover for decades? What if it happened again and again?
What if we constantly subsidized industries that made our climate unlivable?
Nuclear is a sound option. We already deal with mining wastes that must be managed in perpetuity. Nuclear waste isn't much different in that regard.
Your point about landscapes also happens in mining.
Yes, we should be moving to solar instead of propping up uneconomic polluting industries like nuclear or coal.
Nuclear rarely ever perceived as a polluter in such discussions because there's not much waste compared to nearly everything else. The major problem is with its' very slow and expensive roll out and how gas\coal industries hate the guts of a technology that's proven effective - so Germany famously rolled their nuclear programs back and got dependent on russian gas, thanks Schröeder (now works in russian oil companies, kek), Merkel and so-called greens.