[al_hag]

Disasters lead to a rethink

[…] the meltdown in Harrisburg in 1979, the Super-Gau in Chernobyl in 1986. The answer of the then Union-led federal government: Helmut Kohl creates a Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. Also a demonstrative sign to the Greens, who first entered the Bundestag in 1983, with the clear demand for an immediate construction and operation stop to all nuclear power plants.

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/atomausstieg-d...

[acidburnNSA]

Yeah... somehow it's hard for humans to compare normal operating combustion sources like fossil and biofuel killing ~8 million people/yr from air pollution while also causing climate change against a few bad reactor accidents.