Many are scared of what they can't see (radiation), which isn't completely indefensible but tends to be exaggerated way beyond the actual risks.

Others are afraid of what they see as "unnatural", not realizing that nuclear fission is so natural that Mother Nature has at least once spontaneously created a fission reactor without the involvement of human hands. (Seriously—it was in Gabon. And there may be more whose remains we haven't found.)

Anyway, the big heavy-water CANDUs like the ones at Darlington are pretty damned safe by my understanding, and should shut down spontaneously under most failure modes. I'd rather live next to one of them than next to a coal plant.

Uh after that head line, I could. The required work is not fully complete, okay.... it's ahead of schedule. For a government job with big profile contractors, who will shut down the job and site on the regular over the smallest of saftey issues/ environmental reasons. This is from experience. They are under budget by 150mill? Massive red flag right there.

How many corners did they cut, and what lower grade materials did they use? Was the workman ship any good? Things take a certain amount of time for a reason. Professionals know that that's how they come up with deadlines.

It's the triangle of quality. You have 3 outcomes but can only chose 2. Fast and good won't be cheap. Cheap and good won't be fast. And cheap and fast won't be any fuckin good this rule applies 100% to everything.

I mean the waste is radioactive for like a million years, and our best storages last like 100? I think its way weirder to be pro-nuclear. All it does it give a horrific burden to future generations.