I'm pretty sure nuclear power plants are safe if operated properly. I'm pretty sure they are not and will not be operated properly. Especially in Japan, where I live.
A similar thing happened in East Palestine derail, mortality is 0 by the accident itself and the long-term consequences are ignored. I guess you cannot produce an argument in favor of just not maintaining rail tracks just because nobody dies from those accidents...
But I guess all of that tends to be forgotten by the media.
But not by scientific community. Because what you are parroting is exactly what the media is saying.
30 years after Chernobyl https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899336/
Most affected are the crews on site.
Even people in the evacuation zone "received low radiation doses equivalent to approximately one whole-body computed tomography (CT) scan". The rest of Europe? "in Europe number almost 600 million people, with radiation exposure doses comparable to one annual background radiation dose"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tōhoku_earthquake_and_tsu...
"In February 2019, there were 42 operable reactors in Japan. Of these, only nine reactors in five power plants were operating after having been restarted post-2011"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Japan
"All of Japan's nuclear plants were closed, or their operations were suspended for safety inspections. The last of Japan's fifty-four reactors (Tomari-3) went offline for maintenance on 5 May 2012,[8] leaving Japan completely without nuclear-produced electrical power for the first time since 1970."
"The total cost of implementing safety measures, maintaining facilities, and decommissioning of commercially operated nuclear power plants in Japan is estimated at ¥13.46 trillion ($123 billion)"
I still remember the viral video of cleaning up and restoring the roads.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...