Nuclear energy would have fixed all our energy problems twice over with energy to spare even right now over 50 years ago and for generations to come, shit would be basically free, but that's the rub isn't it? So they made grandma and grandpa afraid of it. You ever wonder why no one really talks about the Fukushima reactor incident? Because all those dudes are fine and dandy. They get like ~.50 rads more than most other places due to the contamination and not a damn things happened to them since.