[kharaku]

Chernobyl was caused by an intentional melt down, 3 mile island was only a partial meltdown, and modern Nuclear plants, you know ones built between the last one we built more than 30 years ago and now, are scads safer. It is a safe highly efficient source of energy. You haven't even named a nuclear disaster most people born after Reagan was elected would recall. That should tell you about the incidence of catastophy.

[KevinDavis]

Plus the fact that French (even they get it right once awhile) uses nuclear power..

[Petruk2]

My only objection to nuclear power is that taxpayers are expected to subsidize them. Private insurance companies will not insure them against catastrophic events, and if they did, they would charge premiums so high as to make Nuclear power more expensive than coal, oil, etc... Which is why nuclear power companies are insured by govt. bodies backed up by our tax dollars against meltdown.
Nuclear power, in a free market, is not economically viable yet.

[so_real]

modern Nuclear plants, you know ones built between the last one we built more than 30 years ago and now, are scads safer.

Of that I have no doubt. But Uranium-238 still has a half-life of 4+ billion years (4.5, I believe) making "safe" a relative term -- all equipment eventually ages, and where people are involved accidents do happen.