Reasoning is that coal kills more every day. As someone else said under one of the parent comments, even hydro kills more than nuclear. Dams have wiped out whole regions.

https://www.dw.com/en/in-europe-1-in-8-deaths-linked-to-poll...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dam_failure#List_of_major_dam_...

Our fear of nuclear power plants is irrational. We should be improving this technology not abandon it.

And, Chernobyl seems to thrive, just without humans.

https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/00000154-1bd...