WE need the power, but let's quit being stupid here and apply or invent the technology to ensure that not even an incoming meteor will create this kind of threat to humanity or the world again.
I don’t think so. LWR technology has a safety record that no other industry or modern process can challenge. Thousands of reactor-years of operation without a single injury to a member of the general public. No other technology comes close to that in terms of real, quantifiable, not pie-in-the-sky safety record. Not aviation, not automotive, not petrochemical, not mining or extraction, not nautical or seamanship, not the homebuilding industries, nothing.