Like. Nuclear waste/disasters contaminate areas for thousands of years and cause cancer. Why is that “clean”?
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The problem is that nuclear energy is popularly considered as “dangerous” while other modes of energy generation are implicitly considered to be “danger free”. Nuclear is, again in popular culture, held to a standard of absolute safety, which doesn’t exist in reality, for any mode of electricity generation.
When you [compare different ways](https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1016/j.ress.2015.09.013) to generate electricity, safety discussions become more nuanced. You notice that roughly speaking, renewable sources have [comparable mortality](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh) per unit of produced energy as nuclear. Severe accident fatality rates are comparable for current generation nuclear and wind/solar. Accident rate for next gen nuclear is lowest of all modes of generation.
These safety considerations include factors such as waste.
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