If I remember correctly, we came within about 20 minutes of Three Mile Island becoming something similar to Chernoybl....though probably on a smaller scale.

Two points...oil & coal are finite, though still usable, while nuclear power is not. *IF* we must take chances, nuclear is always there, with the proviso that the more plants, the more possibility of an eventual serious accident. And we STILL have not dealt with the problem of long-term storage of nuclear waste. I lived in Kansas 35 years ago when they were sure they were gonna store it in old salt mines 40 miles from me. Turns out salt migrates over a few thousand years.

We need to SEE just how far we can go with wind, solar, geothermal, etc... and limit both population and need for the dangerous forms of energy.