Today Is...International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day

I wouldn't say i support nuclear energy, obviously it is cleaner than what we already have but whereas it isn't stuffing billions of tonnes of carbon into the already heavily polluted air we breathe, it is instead stuffing it into the ground with nuclear waste making that part of the planet uninhabitable for 100,000 years so it is hardly 'Green Energy' and when it goes wrong, it goes horrifically wrong as it did in 1986 in Chernobyl.
The accident occurred during a safety test which meant as it resulted in a core meltdown and a 19 mile exclusion zone with the evacuation of 70,000 inhabitants nearby, i'm pretty sure it never got a pass certificate.
In all, 39,000 sq miles of land were significantly contaminated with fallout affecting all of Europe and here in the UK, restrictions on where sheep and cattle could graze was only finally lifted in 2012, 26 years later.
Greenpeace has estimated that the direct area around Chernobyl will not be safe for tens of thousands of years but it hasn't put nations off building nuclear power stations, Japan built one at Fukushima which is an Earthquake zone and nobody stopped to consider what would happen if a massive earthquake hit in a place renown for massive earthquakes although they did find out in 2011 and a level seven disaster on the International Nuclear Event Scale, joining Chernobyl as the only other accident to receive such classification.
Leaving aside the threat of leaks and meltdowns, we have a system for generating power that creates tonnes of toxic waste that we don't know how to dispose of and which remains a danger to humans for hundreds of thousands of years and the preferred solution everywhere is to dump it in a big hole in the ground. A very, very deep hole and forget about it.
It does make you wonder just why, when the consequences are so disastrous, we don't make a massive push for renewables because to my knowledge, nobody has got cancer from a wind turbine and nowhere has been declared contaminated for a thousand years by a solar panel but there are currently 442 nuclear power plants in operation around the globe so Nuclear power could be the gift that just keeps giving for some time yet. You just not much like what it is offering.