Well right... I would rather stay in petroleum products, where the damages can be repaired. A tanker spill or a refinery fire are awful things... but those disasters pale by comparison.
I am not against nuclear. But until there is a definitive way to clean up after it, to include disasters, it is unwise... Children should not play with fire.
There has to be a way to render it inert. when that happens, I am all for it.
I think the biggest difference is simple enough to figure out. You can smell gasoline, although methane (most commonly called "Natural Gas" on the consumer end) has no smell, by the time the consumer gets it, it has the mercaptans added in so it stinks, Oil puts slicks or rainbows on the water and can be seen...but radiation really doesn't glow in the dark for the most part, you can't see or smell it, and can absorb a lethal dose and not even know it hit you.
That's scary. Add in long decay lives for significant amounts, and it gets scary for those who come after us, especially those a few hundred or thousand years out, just because we don't know what level they will be operating at, scientifically.
So, better the debbil you now...
