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Why is your model for nuclear Japan? China is the world's forefront of nuclear energy research and development, keeps expanding its capabilities, and has a clean record with no accidents.
Regardless, you're overestimating the damage that nuclear has done in comparison with other energy sources. You could have one Chernobyl per year and you wouldn't come close to the death toll coal or oil have worldwide. Regarding Fukushima for example, since you brought up Japan: some recent studies suggest that more people have died as a consequence of the upending of their lived by the evacuation of the whole region, than would have died according to realistic statistical models of radiation damage to humans. The main problem is that fossil fuel lobbies have successfully made people completely intolerant of radiation damage while they happily live in cities breathing in NO2 and particulate matter without one complaint.
Yeah one really nice thing about nuclear is it's very easy to safely hide all the waste away for 20-60 years and pretend it'll never leak or cause issues for anyone in the future, but then you get a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site
Wow, an energy source which sometimes has increased cancer rates in its vicinity due to pollution? Thank golly all other energy sources don't have such problems!