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BBMW, your definition of "tiny" is subject to debate.

How much CO2 does it take to kill someone? How much otehr industrial waste does it take? Do any of these products break down over time? Do they effect other things around them?

The main problem with nuclear is that it is a material that works in many ways:

1. It starts off as a toxic chemical, but is not that dangerous because of its concentrations, weight eic.
2. The radiation is what is deadly. PROXIMITY to is, even w/o ingestion can prove deadly
3. It is cumulative. The longer you are exposed the higher the risk.
4. It contaminates ANY other substance. It can make ANYTHING radioactive, from water to gold.
5. Small amounts can be extremely dangerous.
6. Large amounts cannot be stored together for risk of achieving critical mass (a true "dirty" bomb, not just nuclear material ejected by conventional expolsives).

Fusion power is the only viable alternative right now, until we learn how to re-stabilize the fissive elements produced. Similar problems with radiation will happen, but not in the same manner. I believe that magnetic shielding can provide the protection, much like the van allen belt does for earth against the sun, for our possible fission plants.

Not only that, it CAN be further developed to give us new resources of any element up to about 55 on the chart I believe (Iron?) coming from common elements like Hydrogen, Helium and Carbon.

But calling fission power green now is like calling coal plants green. They just arent.