<i>But just to be sure, I got in touch with a friend of mine who works at a research reactor, and asked him what he thought would happen to you if you tried to swim in their radiation containment pool.</i><p><i>“In our reactor?” He thought about it for a moment. “You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”</i><p>Shot for your own safety. Classic.
Nuclear is amazingly safe compared to other options. Pollution from fossil fuels kills millions a year, but only a few dozen have ever died from nuclear power worldwide.