China opens its 50th nuclear reactor.

[Rick Rolle]

3. I'd prefer not to live next any power plant

We are not incompetent. The U.S. has many educated, talented engineers who can design safe, efficient nuclear power plants. We also have talented, educated, hard-working men and women who can build the best nuclear power plants in the world. We just need the government to get behind a program to make it happen. The U.S. nuclear industry, with one very notable exception, has an excellent safety record. The U.S. Navy has safely operated dozens, if not hundreds, of nuclear reactors since 1954. Nuclear power has been done, it is being done today, and it can be done in the future, safely.