wasn't there a tsunami recently in japan, one of the highest technological countries in the world, that left a reactor so close to melting down it had people scared?
didn't that "regulated and safe" reactor get approved from the nuclear autority?
thing is, we don't have tech for purely indestructible items and mother nature laughs in our face constantly.
this is reality not fantasy, and current tech doesn't support making stuff stronger than tinfoil according to mother natures designs(even some human designs...terrorists and all)
so yes, they make it out of tinfoil (as an comparison, because everything is flimsy when enough force is applied)
what is considered 100% safe by them will have something thrown at it, be it human or nature, that screws everything up.
even the best reactors have nuclear waste.
all in all screw nuclear power.
there is actually hydrogen cell technology, its output is, water, and electricity, some buss systems are running off it in england i hear use large cells.
small versions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8mv2oq75vk
just read up on current tech for it, hydrogen cells could seriously help with solar power being intermittent
i what i think when i think about green energy is NOT one specific type working solo.
but a roof covered in solar panels, 1 or 2 turbines in the backyard, charging large batteries in the basement.
then some sort of control board that reads how much is being used and uses up a hydrogen fuel cell to make up for battery life.
all of those combined would almost completely negate the problems with the other types of power being intermittent / stopping for a bit
(storm clouds roiling blocking off light would probably make the wind turbines produce more, night time no wind or turbines if it doesn't look like battery life will last till the next day start using some of the hydrogen cell electricity --so on so forth)