My argument is not that nuclear energy is much less safe than other energy technologies. I am merely observing that (a) our understanding of the safety of nuclear power generation has been shown to be severely lacking and that (b) nuclear power generation has a very different distribution of adverse outcomes than do technologies without the potential for catastrophic failure. Together, those facts suggest that comparisons of the safety of nuclear power to that of other technologies are not very meaningful.
But since it seems most readers are actively disinterested in the details, I'll give up the argument.
My argument is not that nuclear energy is much less safe than other energy technologies. I am merely observing that (a) our understanding of the safety of nuclear power generation has been shown to be severely lacking and that (b) nuclear power generation has a very different distribution of adverse outcomes than do technologies without the potential for catastrophic failure. Together, those facts suggest that comparisons of the safety of nuclear power to that of other technologies are not very meaningful.
But since it seems most readers are actively disinterested in the details, I'll give up the argument.