I'm admittedly not a nuclear engineer - but I hear a great deal about how much modern nuclear plant design has advanced since the days of Three Mile Island and

I'm admittedly not a nuclear engineer - but I hear a great deal about how much modern nuclear plant design has advanced since the days of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and that our modern designs would not be susceptible to such catastrophes. Assuming this is somewhat true (I am just assuming that) we are erroneously allowing the ghosts of those terrible old events to stop us from investing in modern, safe nuclear energy.