Can you say Chernobyl?
There is a reason that Chernobyl was a problem. The Ruskies built it as a bomb making factory. My nuke E prof in college showed us a picture of the plant, and was very vociferous about the safety problems and the reason for them. I guess he was po'd because it gave nuclear energy a black eye for no reason other than the Ruskies wanted to build more bombs.
Yeah, I would like to throw in a comment on this--of course, the melt down at Chernobyl was "deliberate," in that they deliberately removed the control rods as part of a test. It turned out to be a monumentally stupid test, but it's not like it was just an accident. Yeah, it was an accident that there was a meltdown, but that accident was the direct result of the stupid decision to remove the safety devices.
There were a lot of other problems, to be sure, and maybe there would have been a meltdown in the future, but come on. Gotta use the noggin.