We should make nuclear safer and learn from the accidents that have occured in the past, but at the same time we have to accept some risk of we are to generate power. If we build a hydroelectric dam, we know there is a risk of overflow, cracking and flooding. That is just a fact dealing with the extreme amount of energy stored in water that is elevated.

We should make sure that maintenance is handled with the understanding of the human lives depending on it, and managers and politicians need to respect the powerful natural forces of both water and nuclear bonds. That said, stopping to use either in favor of fossil fuels is bad for the planet and bad for the people living on it. Living near a nuclear plants or downstream of a hydroelectric power plants is preferable compared to living near a fossil fueled power plants, and its the role of advocates, learned people and politicians to inform the public of this fact.

Critics should be held to blame for misleading the population, just as politicians should be when they chose to build fossil fueled power plants in favor of safer technologies.