>...even nuclear advocates say those old reactors are unsafe. No, this is not what people are saying. Those plants from the 50s and 60s have proven to be far s

>...even nuclear advocates say those old reactors are unsafe. No, this is not what people are saying. Those plants from the 50s and 60s have proven to be far safer ways of generating electricity than any alternative. Even today those plants are still safer than rooftop solar or wind and orders of magnitude safer than coal etc. What people have been saying is that new designs are safer than previous designs - passive emergency cooling systems, etc. Given the political environment in the US, there will likely be little role for nuclear power for at least the next few decades. Instead it will likely be China which builds/deploys nuclear power.