And this is precisely why people prefer coal plants that kill them slowly over nuclear plants that don't kill anybody, but are "scary".
By the way, coal ash is also radioactive and contaminates ground. All coal plants in Germany alone produce around 8 million m3 of coal waste every month, so over 100 millions of tons per years. And the ash is just stored on heaps, contaminating land and water.
All nuclear plants in all EU produced 6 million m3 of waste ever. But who cares?