It would be worth checking into Uranium City on Lake Athabasca in Saskatchewan. People suspect that leaching of radioactive substances into the Lake's water--and indirectly into the rivers flowing from the Lake into areas of Saskatchewan--is causing double the death rate in new-borns and also a higher than average deformity rate in new-borns.

IMO, while I agree that the present realistic 'ultimate' power source IS nuclear fission, the cost is just too hign UNTIL we learn how to handle the waste (as was noted above).