More people have died in Teddy Kennedys car than have died from the commercial generation of nuclear power.
A great deal of the expense incurred by neuclear power is do to excessive government regulation.
There are technically feasible (there are used in France and Great Brittan) methods of reducing the volume of spent nuclear fuel, however thanks to Jimma Carter the United States for swore the reprocessing of spent commercial reactor fuel.
NIMBY politics has held up the construction of the Commercial Nuclear Fuel Repository Facility at Yucca Mountain which was required by contract to begin accepting waste in 1999.
Politics is the only thing that prevents Nuclear Power for supplying cost competitive electricity to the consumers of this country.
"And Lord, we are especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is. Except for solar, which is just a pipe dream." - Homer Simpson
"And this one solar collector can gather enough energy to run this colorful pinwheel ...Wait. Wait, I got it, I got it." - Ed Begley Jr.