The leftists as well as a significant number of centrists and rightists realize that nuclear power produces huge amounts of concentrated, is a dangerous terrorist target
Please don't take this the wrong way, but whenever that particular quote is bandied about it makes me want to shriek. The containment vessel of a nuclear reactor can be breached, yes. By bunker-busting munitions. On the second or maybe third direct hit on the same spot.
A Boeing 777 would effectively bounce. It'd wreck generators and such, but in terms of causing a radiation leak, you're shooting spitballs at an Abrams. It's such an uninformed, uneducated statement to claim that nuke plants are dangerous terrorist targets that you might as well flat-out state that you've got no interest in educating yourself about the issues.
Here's a horrible, horrible case in point.
Greenpeace on Nuclear Power - Science Doesn't Matter.
When one of the main eco types is saying that he doesn't care about the science, that's all credibility gone, right there, forever. Because it is
all about science. If you're not willing to do the science, you're not able to talk effectively about any issue surrounding nuclear, er,
science. Sorry, but you're not. Which means you've gotta be able to do the numbers, and look at the experiments (that one with the Phanton is always a favourite), and be able to make an evaluation based on the facts.
Not opinion, not gut-feeling, not belief, not boogiemen, tooth fairies, invisible friends or What The Bloke Down The Pub Said - facts.
Would living on top of a nuclear waste dump bother me? Not even a little. I can sit here with a pencil and work out the attenuation of gamma rays through concrete. Take the pencil away and it'll take me longer but I'll get there. It'd bug me a bit that a huge majority of people who wouldn't do the math even if they had the ability would junk the resale value of my home, but I've long ago realised that you can bring a horse to water, but you can't stop it being silly.