I would have thought that the eco-people, if given a choice between two kinds of power plants: a) one that produces huge quantities of mildly posionous pollution that cannot be contained and gets all over the place, or b) a kind of plant that produces small quantities of highly dangerous waste which can be safely contained and handled and doesn't normally get loose, that they'd opt for b).
Our (USA) worst nuclear accident resulted in the loss of the plant, but nothing got outside (Three Mile Island). That's what the containment building was for.
