There are a ton of roadblocks to nuclear power, unfortunately. Although I agree with you that, done right, nuclear is the way to go, it's a tough road to get t

There are a ton of roadblocks to nuclear power, unfortunately. Although I agree with you that, done right, nuclear is the way to go, it's a tough road to get to. Perhaps biggest, at least in the USA, there is the "Not in my backyard" syndrome. We all want clean energy, but we don't want the chance of a meltdown happening near us / our kids / our workplace. Then there are the coal workers--there are a LOT of jobs tied up here, and it would be political suicide to tell a huge chunk of Southeast America that their job is going away. Then there's the question of other countries. We can make all the changes we want here in the USA, but what do we do about China, Brazil, etc? Any developing country is going to want to trade emissions for growth. China's been doing it for decades and is just now starting to wonder if maybe they should clean up the air. We still breathe that same air, how do we get them not to foul it up? Do we encourage them to build nuclear reactors? Do we have to inspect them to make sure they're safe? Maybe they don't care if a meltdown happens every 5 years, but again, that fouls up our air/waters as well.