In the 1950s Nuclear was billed to be the source of infinite abundant clean energy for the future. That did not come to be. The reason cited often is Nuclear disasters.There have been 4 nuclear disasters:

• SL-1 in Idaho — Right next to the Idaho Indian Reservation, hence you would have never heard of it
• Chernobyl, Ukraine
• Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania
• And more recently Fukushima, Japan

There are 440 Operational Nuclear Reactors in the World and if you include the ones that have been closed, the number would go up to 500.4 out of 500 is less than a 1% failure rate, I would call that a tremendous success. Also the total radiation-related accidents across the world total to less than 200. If you were to include secondary and tertiary deaths the number goes up to 1 million.Let us just put that in context.Globally there are due to motor vehicle accidents, EVERY YEAR. It is the leading cause of death for people aged between 5–29 according to the World Health Organisation.Even if you include the wanton death caused by the bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, you are not even going to come close to touching distance of the number of lives traffic claims.If we were as concerned about lives lost due to car accidents as we seem to have been with Nuclear Power, we may not…