http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/13/17311/9218#3

"...lawmakers must also have the courage to promote safe climate-friendly nuclear energy."

Yep, that's the right word for the people who live or work near a nuclear plant.  Courage!!  

If there's an accident it might not be as bad as Chernobyl.  

Actually a government study found that each one of over 100 "swimming pool" used nuclear fuel rod storage facilities (located at nuclear plants all over the US, some on earthquake fault lines)could release 8 to 17 times the contamination of the Chernobyl incident.

Or it might be the deadly silent (covered up by nuclear contractors/regulators)contamination in your groundwater that gets you.  

Or the yellowcake dust in the air from uranium mining.

Or nuclear proliferation of weapons made possible by nuclear power plants, like those in Iran.  And N Korea, and Pakistan, and on and on.

Or nuclear winter caused by nuclear weapons "exchanges" in the middle east.

Let's take the chicken's way out instead.  Forget " the courage to promote safe climate-friendly nuclear energy".  

Wind power, wave power, solar power, conservation, plugin vehicles.... cowardly yes.  But a lot better for the planet.