Some American railroads going to 100% biofuel.

[AFdude06]

Summed up perfectly.

 

[pware]

Sure one could just be afraid of everything due to the potential risks including human error.

Risk is a part of life but the problem is that we usually do not know what those risks are and what decisions were made that may have made that risk higher.

There is a big difference between a decision to ignore the red "Don't Walk" sign and cross the road anyway and getting on a new jet liner where the manufacturer had decided not to tell the pilots about a change they made to the automated flight management system. In the case of Chernobyl, a decision was made, for state security reasons, to not tell the operators that there was a known flaw in the reactor design with a high risk of an explosion under certain startup conditions.

 

[ricomon35]

My post has nothing to do with potential risk. It illustrates actual existing problems.
For example, there is high risk of the Hanford wastes that are currently leaking into the area groundwater AND the Columbia river becoming bad enough to harm the river ecology permanently, or cause the groundwater to become unusable by any lifeform.