The very notion of this tickles my funny bone. We can't have nuclear power because of isolated instances of corruption and/or incompetence. The Soviets built a nuclear reactor, cutting corners in a fashion that would have a Chinese firm raising their eyebrows in surprise and an instance of corruption that had people punished for it. But look at Fukushima! Yes, a modern facility that suffered a catastrophic act of nature that had manageable consequences and the media hype of nuclear fallout devastating the western seaboard of the US
never happened. Compared to the rest of the nuclear reactors across the planet, the only other one that jumps to mind is Sellafield. A plant for producing isotopes for nuclear warheads near the very start of nuclear proliferation. Try to imagine a nuclear power plant being built today without the most strict of safety measures.
Agreed. The sooner we get stuck in the better. At worst, a new means of power generation may be discovered down the line that may make nuclear obsolete but there's as much of a chance that that doesn't happen till well into the future. If we're going to see large scale efforts to reduce petrol or diesal driven cars to electric, power demands are going to skyrocket but people don't seem to realize that power isn't just some universal thing you can plug and use. Voltage rates, AC/DC aren't important. Juts plug it in and it'll be fine.