Arguing that coal ash is less bad than the very rare nuclear disasters is also a bad take IMO.

Both have issues. It doesn’t mean that we should abandon nuclear for coal, nor the other way around.

Personally I’m a fan of nuclear, and I’m against coal, but realistically, there’s too many data points to argue, and bluntly, I don’t have sufficient information at this time, to competently and fully argue either way.

Fact is, green energy, like solar and wind (among others) are better than both nuclear and coal (and even gas and whatnot). I just don’t want to pretend that either nuclear or coal is a better ecological choice than renewables.