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I prefer the more traditional nuclear power - fusion. It works, it's pretty safe and we know a lot about how it works (explosions are predictable and it's extremely unlikely that our existing one will ever blow up). Better, the waste products are both useful and for the most part easy to deal with.
Fission is just plain dumb. Not least because we still don't have a good way to deal with the waste. For the capitalists out there, I think it's significant that even with huge subsidies private companies just aren't interested in it. It also makes you a target for terrorists, especially state-sponsored ones.
In terms of accidents, the Japanese have quite a good reputation for reliable technology and an astonishingly bad history with nuclear power. The Russians are worse, of course, but they don't really have a reputation to lose.
Here in Australia we have a couple of small reactors that also have a history of leaking, breaking down and generally not working very well. Except as producers of radioactive waste, that part they do well.
The mining end is pretty nasty, we have three mines and none of them operate even within the lax environmental regulations they have. The worst is in Kakadu, the triply-listed world heritage area that has a road and mine excised from the middle of it so someone can mine uranium. I don't think they've got through a monsoon season without a tailings dam leak yet. So basically the mine is a way to spread radioactive heavy metals through a world heritage area. Yippee, hooray and all that.
Finally, there's the annoying habit that the US and Russia have of spreading nuclear waste around other countries without consent. Using depleted uranium munitions is pretty far up the "destroy their villages and salt their fields" scale, leaving a legacy of poison for generations.
So, why would I want to become part of that? Well, it's easier than changing my lifestyle.
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