Funnily enough, coal actually produces more radioactive waste than fission does, for a given amount of power. The further thing is that the coal plant pumps that radioactive waste directly into the atmosphere.
For literally any metric, fission power is superior to all other available approaches, purely by putting out such an absurd amount of power. Even if fission power were a thousand times worse, even if it did actually produce all these negative effects, it would still be better than alternatives by the numbers, because its efficiency is many thousands of times higher. Even compared to other fossil-alternative darlings, like solar and wind, fission power requires significantly less resource and mineral extraction - which might seem counter-intuitive, how can a large power plant that runs off fission fuel require less resources and minerals than a solar panel? But, it makes sense, when you realise that a single fission power station produces as much energy as many, many square kilometers of panels.
This is, also, ignoring developments in fusion power, which is inherently ‘clean-burning’, and generates so much more power than fission that, even if it weren’t, it would already be the best possible option. Nuclear power is the only realistic solution for moving away from fossil fuels - to transition from fossil fuels to non-nuclear green energy, like solar panels and wind turbines, would require a significant increase in mining and resource extraction, to build not just the panels and turbines, but the complicated electrical equipment required for them and for power storage. Nuclear power is, really, the only power source that doesn’t inherently involve the destruction of Earth’s biosphere - because the way that happens isn’t flashy accidents or nuclear wars, as the oil industry might want you to think, it’s a slow and gradual process of resource extraction.
As a conclusion, let’s take three modes of transport as a metaphor: a gas-guzzling SUV, a shiny Tesla, and a passenger train. Everyone knows the SUV is bad, so the debate is over the alternative - and that debate largely gets centred on the electric car, running off a lithium-ion battery, powered by some green solar panels. What is conspicuously absent from the discussion, dismissed out of hand, is the passenger train, which gets its power from overhead lines, which run directly to a fission power station. One of these solutions is realistic, and the other is functionally just a slightly-better continuation of the original problem. The other one is the one that the car companies would rather be arguing with.
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