Many of the legitimate complaints about nuclear plants of several decads ago are moot. The third- and fourth-generation plants are truly fail-safe.

In a manner something like but more reliable than the air brakes on modern trucks. When their air pressure, which is needed to operate the brakes, fails, the brakes clamp on. The stop is immediate and sure.

There are nuke designs in which the reactor is in a well. If there is a failure, the well floods and shuts down the reactor, completely and safely.

Now, the "waste". That can be stored safely, and is probably an asset in the long run. More and more medical devices and sensors use radioactivity. And even those that are truly "waste" can be put away for thousands and thousands of years.

By then technology will be able to handle them. Look at what's happened with robotics in the last 25 years, and give it another thousand.

And, I don't think the oil people are willing to give up the quick bucks they are getting now. They won't quit until it's all gone, forever, sort of like some of the lumber interests.

Arf