It seems to me like Nuclear is the safest form of energy in the short term - very few people die per gigawatt hour, if you will. But in the long term I'm still not entirely convinced - we've only had nuclear power for a few decades, but the waste is going to stick around for a lot longer than that, so calling it "safe" on the basis of a very small amount of data relative to the whole time we'll be affected by them seems...premature.

That said, we could solve a lot of the problems - and even get rid of existing waste - by switching to newer reactor designs that are, among other things, much safer.

Fat chance of that happening, at least in this country. We're just to firmly wed to what is essentially a generation of outdated reactor designs.