Ok, now It's her turn. I'm free, mwahahaha mwahahahaa!
Seriously, our government is far from perfect. But historically speaking, it is in fact the best ever. It's also all we've got. Up until very recently in world history, countries and nations with superpower status have been overly ruthless and oppressive. The previous world powers basically murdered, enslaved, and burned their way to the top. Any dissent or threat against the ruling parties was simply put down. I am thankful not to live in these circumstances.
Actually, the American nuclear program in general, both military and industrial, has by far the best track record on Earth. Compared to both other nuclear weapon proliferating nations and other power generating sources of energy, the nuclear program in general still comes out on top. How many mishaps or disasters related to natural gas or oil can you recount in the last ten years? The natural gas industry runs over 2 million miles of distribution pipe, yet employs only 100 or so inspectors. Casualties occur weekly and losses are in the range of billions per month in damages and repairs.
The coal industry could not operate if they had to count their radioactive emissions. The fly ash waste emits much more radiation ounce for ounce than nuclear waste being sequestered in pools or dry casks. Guess where this radiation comes from? Uranium and thorium (and their decay products: radium, radon,..., lead) and (you guessed it) carbon-14 mined with the coal and concentrated by the burning process. This radioactive waste is written off as NORM. What doesn't go up the smokestack gets recycled as feedstock for other industrial processes or ends up in a landfill somewhere. When coal industry haters argue against the industry, they usually don't even mention this fact, since the common safety hazards and associated "normal" pollution levels and environmental devastation make the radiation emissions seem irrelevant. Sulfur and mercury and CO2 and such.
Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste - Scientific American