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A nuclear power plant does produce deadly products. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-is-piling-up-does-the-u-s-have-a-plan/
A nuclear fusion power plant (up and coming) would produce zero net, but the energy needed is not yet sustainable. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-repeat-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-in-a-step-toward-more-clean-energy-180982683/
However, I am not a professional, just a mere student. I think I'd agree that nuclear power overall, would be better now than coal or gas, but would be worse in the long run due to the residual pollution.
Those potentially deadly products can be stored in a safe way. Your link doesn't even claim that it's actively killing people. They claim that it's costly to build geologic repositories, and once they're built you don't need more for a long time. Meanwhile coal power plants are directly putting deadly waste into people's lungs.
Take a look at this bar chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17876910/
Nuclear waste is a solved problem, and it has been solved for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/06/19/stop-letting-your-ridiculous-fears-of-nuclear-waste-kill-the-planet/
It can also be reprocessed to further reduce the waste amounts:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
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