Compared to other systems for generating electrical energy, nuclear energy is relatively unsafe

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Coal plants are especially burdensome to health and property, as was discussed in
earlier chapters. Compared to this, nuclear energy causes many fewer deaths. However, the
possibility of catastrophe is much greater for nuclear plants than for fossil fuels, though the
probability of such a catastrophe is very low. (However, occasionally hundreds of people
are killed in fossil fuel plants. An aboveground gas storage tank in Cleveland started
leaking, and led to a gas explosion that killed 130 people and leveled about a square mile of
the east side of the city.)
It should be noted that reactors could be a terrorist target. It is unlikely that coal-fired plants
would be targeted, but as the above story tells us, gas storage could be a target.