I'm a physicist. What education are you referring to?
Downplaying the risks of nuclear power plants, which are real, is easy to do, as long as it is far from your home. Most people can't grasp the reality of a nuclear disaster or its aftermath, because they haven't seen it. I have.
Yes, engineering has progressed, yes, there are ever improving safe-guards.
As you're probably aware, in Japan, we had a major disaster 14 years ago. Such disasters are very rare, but they will keep happening in future, and no electrical company that build nuclear reactors can guarantee that the probability is 0%. It is a matter of time (maybe in 50 years, maybe in 500 years), and when it happens, who is going to take responsibility for all the lives and damage? Toden couldn't, and certainly not the armchair (nor actual) nuclear engineers who like to lecture people about how they are uneducated.
Downplaying the risks of nuclear power plants, which are real, is easy to do, as long as it is far from your home. Most people can't grasp the reality of a nuclear disaster or its aftermath, because they haven't seen it. I have.
Yes, engineering has progressed, yes, there are ever improving safe-guards. As you're probably aware, in Japan, we had a major disaster 14 years ago. Such disasters are very rare, but they will keep happening in future, and no electrical company that build nuclear reactors can guarantee that the probability is 0%. It is a matter of time (maybe in 50 years, maybe in 500 years), and when it happens, who is going to take responsibility for all the lives and damage? Toden couldn't, and certainly not the armchair (nor actual) nuclear engineers who like to lecture people about how they are uneducated.