People fear nuclear, because they imagine a nuke plant turning into a Hiroshima bomb - not possible.

Condescending bullshit. People have a variety of reasons for distrusting the nuclear sales pitch; maybe the most prevalent one is that they don't want to risk having their country end up like this:

Lake Karachay

I have never met anyone, however technically ignorant, who thought it was likely that a nuclear power station would blow up like a bomb. (Though Chernobyl, Kyshtym and Fukushima were all more polluting than the bombs set off during WW2).

Reducing energy usage is the only feasible solution to the fix we're in. And the only effective way to do that involves totally eliminating the private car, along with the planning infrastructure that has grown up interdependent with it. We can't keep on shuffling people and stuff around the planet by unsustainable transport at the rate we're doing.