Do we need Nuclear Energy, Absolutely.

Do we need Carbon Pile reactors which haven't been built in the US since the '50s? No. Chernobyl was a catastrophe with soviet fingerprints all over it, which could not happen in the US due to they type of our reactors, the built in fail safes which really work, and a strong regulatory agency. I'd dredge up the paper I wrote on chernobyl for chem, but I don't think I can find a comp to read the disk it's on.

Environmentalists raise the cry for electric cars, electric mass transportation, electric heat.......ad nauseum. WHERE IS THAT ELECTRICITY GOING TO COME FROM????

Without nuclear power, which has easily contained byproducts, the answer becomes coal, oil, LNG, etc, which defeats the purpose. The contaminants from nuclear power are finite and containable. With proper controls in place, the risk of an accident is minimal.