So is nuclear power in general, but countries like Germany still find it easier to get the public to support coal (ironically, more radioactive pollution) than Nuclear because of large scale smear campaigns.

Not saying you’re wrong, but there’s good reason to doubt businesses when they say the solution to pollution is dilution. It was a pretty common saying in some industries and for decades, and it resulted in hundreds to thousands of areas in the US which are so polluted it will be hundreds of years before the damage is rectified, if that.

I’ll admit I can’t say with certainty the best course of action here, as I haven’t read the research or looked at the sources. It probably isn’t that much of an issue, and maybe Japan has better and more enforced regulation than the US. But for my experience, once you give the ok for these businesses with practically zero environmental accountability to pollute, and expect them to do it responsibly, is often the beginning of destroying the local ecosystem. Then the taxpayers pay for it, because there’s almost always a way for the skeevy executives to avoid responsibility.