I made the comparison because you are trusting your life to the government or corporation when you drive over a bridge or fly in a plane. Which is something mos

I made the comparison because you are trusting your life to the government or corporation when you drive over a bridge or fly in a plane. Which is something most people do daily without thinking about it even though the death toll from collapsed bridges and plane crashes far outweighs that of nuclear energy. Safety of later reactor designs is far improved from the earlier pressurized water reactors, although even those relatively dangerous reactors have been used widely in the navy without incident for decades. There are reactors already in use that are stable to perturbations, TRIGA reactors have negative temperature coefficients which make meltdown type accidents impossible. They are so safe, students are entrusted to operate one at Reed college. I would need to do more research to comment on perturbative stability of later reactor designs in use for power generation. I share your concerns on the deleterious effects of economic pressure. Although my primary concern is that we will stop building them and decommission existing reactors, citing the high capital cost and cheap nameplate cost of solar.