nuclear energy

even though I wrote my surprise about the problems which the earthquake in Japan brought over the Japanese and their nuclear powerplants I think that the press overstates the imporance and risk of this horrible accident. Reading all the news about it, it does still seem that nuclear energy is the most save and non polluting energy form. Even though the risks are existent and if something blows up you can measure it easily because of the advantage to have all the dirt and debris. However having all the dirt in one place is a big advantage when it comes to cleaning up the mess...as my cleaning woman tells me. The CO polluting effects are not so easily measured because they appear worldwide. Global warming and it's followers like hurricanes, floods, exessive rainfalls, draughts have surely killed much more people than Chernobyl (56 confirmed and up to 4000 in the next years due to Leukemia) and Fukushima (0 up to now..).