Actually, this is a much greater problem than you might think! The Western Boobie is often sighted in its natural habitat along secluded Californian beaches hidden from human traffic by being at the base of bluffs and cliffs, ones frequented by skinny dippers. The bluffs and cliffs above, of course, are exposed to the full force of winds off the Pacific, and hence a prime location for windpower generators. Construction of them in this location would destroy the seclusion of those beaches and hence greatly reduce sightings of the Western Boobie, something I’m sure nobody wants! 
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More seriously, Shodan does make an excellent point. If we held coal-power plants to the same high standard as fission plants, they’d be closed down in a minute, while we had a furious argument over what transportation and disposal method was safe enough for the carcinogenic tailings and flyash.
There is a need to assure safety, granted. You’ll notice earlier that I was hot against those permitting contractors building nuke plants, companies operating nuke plants, and those dealing ad interim with spent fuel elements while we finish debating what to do with them more permanently, to do less than sterling work, and decrying the fact that the regulators and inspectors are failing to blow the whistle on those practices. (This is not to indict the companies trying to do quality work, but to say that there are others who don’t, and they bring disrepute on the entire industries.)
But when you’ve reduced the risk potential to a sufficiently low probability, then you’ve done what’s needed to assure safety. The low-probability disaster scenarios need to be looked at, to be sure, and acted on as needed – but not permitted to turn our energy policy catatonic as a result of taking everything into account.
Or else we should end this discussion altogether and turn as one to address a truly serious threat: It’s a statistical certainty that sometime in the next twenty-six million years a “dinosaur-killer” size cosmic body will impact the earth and cause widespread destruction to the ecosystem. And the amount we as a nation are expending to even watch for the problem over a decade is probably lower than the weekly gross revenue of the Chicago Reader.
Before we start worrying about what happens if a violently insane genius breaks out of custody, steals construction euipment, and heads for Yucca Mountain, let’s look at how many people are going to die as a result of brownouts, blackouts, fuel shortages, and so on, while we’re arguing out those low-likelihood scenarios. For me, they’re the bottom line.
