Two centuries at least of engineering experience to build on, for a start? Nuclear plants are relatively straightforward extensions of existing civil, electrica

Two centuries at least of engineering experience to build on, for a start? Nuclear plants are relatively straightforward extensions of existing civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering principles--it's all just steam engines eventually. Also, notice that there are a lot more software installations and people who work on them than nuke plants. Also also note that this supremely reliable technology you are trying to hold up is (rightly or wrongly) being demonized and phased out across the first world. The point you probably want to make is that software engineering should be a more rigorous profession. And yes, we've got a ways to go there, and yes, we're making progress. What is not reasonable is the hypocritical and self-serving risk-aversion many people have to improving processes through software.