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You offer condolences, and you say you understand. Thank you, but what do you think you understand?

Your analogy that somehow equates car accidents to nuclear disasters is not even wrong, and the fact that in your mind these can somehow be put into the same analogy is a testament that you don't understand.

1. With a car, you make a decision to use it or not given the risk factors. In contrast, the actual risks of a nuclear reactor built by a corporation in a remote area are not born by the company but rather by the town folks who have been living there and their descendants (an entire population) who have no choice in operating a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood.

And as we also see here, for few who dare to raise their voice, they are shut down by the corporation and local politicians with promises of a bright future or blamed with ignorance by some of their peers. Those same people who are not going to take responsibility when the nuclear disaster happens.

2. A car accident can kill a few people and financial damages are small and can be covered by an ordinary insurance company. A nuclear disaster can kill and make sick an entire population, destroy their livelihoods and poison the environment for generations, and caused damages are so great, well beyond the capabilities of any insurance or electrical company. In practice, the burden of the material damages fell upon the citizens of the entire nation.

As I already said, ever-improving nuclear reactors can result in a nuclear disaster, however "modern" they are. You can guarantee otherwise only in the imaginary world of spherical cows. As long as nuclear power plans are run, Fukushima disaster is not going to be last nuclear disaster the humanity has seen. And again, the question is not "will another nuclear disaster happen". This is Murphy's law. The question is "when it happens, what will its effect be?"

If a corporation wants to operate a nuclear reactor, they should build it hundreds of kilometers away from any human settlement, with proper containment and cleaning mechanism in place that can be deployed right after the failure.

I looked at Wolf Creek Generating Station on Wikipedia, what of it? I don't see a nuclear disaster happened there. I hope the day won't ever come, but I would be interested in hearing your opinion on the matter after Wolf Creek melts down like in Fukushima ---at which point you will actually understand.