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People acting like coal isn't radioactive or extremely toxic for everyone around
I don't think there are too many people arguing against fission who are in favour of coal
You say that but that's practically Australia in a nutshell, nuclear is explicitly banned for the purposes of energy production
The coal plants are decommissioning due to costs, renewable energy is booming, and (obviously due to the ban) there is no local nuclear industry or expertise. Even if you manage to lift the ban, which nobody is trying to do*, nuclear would not be replacing coal plants here, but might divert renewable funding. In other countries I have no doubt building more nuclear could offset coal, not here.
Any idea what fraction of our total power consumed is from renewables?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Australia
If you want to get excited though, check the rapid rise of renewables.