What's the best harm reduction strategy for power production?

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We need power. Electricity isn't just about convenience. Very few things are as effective at lifting whole communities out of poverty as cheap and abundant electricity is, and electricity powers so many things that make our lives healthier and better. But every source of power has drawbacks. Some are environmental (fossil fuels!) and others don't scale well or require power storage that we're not currently capable of doing on a large enough scale (renewables). Here's a really interesting look at power production on a large scale, which method has the fewest drawbacks, and why we're so scared of nuclear power.

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/nuclear-power-isnt-perfect-is-it-good-enough/

(Their sources and resources are linked here.)