What is the main reason that people are hesitant to use nuclear energy a. it produces radioactive waste. b. it uses large amounts of water. c. the ore used for nuclear energy must be mined. d. it is more damaging to natural habitats than the use of coal.

Nuclear energy is FEARED due to production of radioactive waste. Expose to radioactive waste have already taken place like Fu.kushima nuclear power station (March 2011) and more famously known; Chernobyl (April 1986). Nuclear waste is dangerous for over tens of thousands of years! For humans, radioactive waste breaks up our DNA. Either damaging our cells, or MUTATING them, which eventually lead to cancer and ever death.