Nuclear is safe

The single most negative thing about nuclear power is the perceived safety factor. I say perceive because nuclear is far and away the safest method of electricity production. Here are the deaths per TW of power produced. Coal 24.6 deaths, oil 18.4 deaths, natural gas 2.8 deaths and nuclear .07 deaths and this includes the 100 people who died at the Russian plant in Chernobyl. Thorium plants would be much safer than the current uranium plants, far less costly to build while producing much safer by products. It takes 800,000 tons of uranium ore to produce one gigawatt of energy as opposed to 200 tons of thorium. The by products from uranium plants will last 10,000 years while thorium by product last 300 years. Thorium by products can be used as a source of valuable medical compounds. Thorium plants are smaller and thus less costly since they operate at normal pressures and if they lose power they shut down automatically meaning the can be built near populated areas which means fewer long distance power lines.