If you think nuke energy is "safe", may we deposit the radioactive waste in your backyard?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690627522614525.html
The fact of the matter is that our outdated laws lead to a lot of waste that really isn't waste. The example of France in the article is very telling.
What remains after all this material has been extracted from spent fuel rods are some isotopes for which no important uses have yet been found, but which can be stored for future retrieval. France, which completely reprocesses its recyclable material, stores all the unused remains -- from 30 years of generating 75% of its electricity from nuclear energy -- beneath the floor of a single room at La Hague.