You have to smile at that one...
You guys are missing the point...it's not even nuclear. Your immersion in nuclear power technology, with no other exposure (no pun intended) outside the necessarily myopic nuclear world, has limited your thinking.
We will continue to have significant events of change in our world at an increasing rate. The world is becoming more and more complex. Humans are not equipped to deal with the current world that we live in and it is only going to get better. Nuclear just happens to currently be at the tip of the spear.
Rest assured: the little box that you currently reside in is clearly labeled "Nuclear" but the focus of the entire world can and will change suddenly overnight when the next significant event of change occurs and no one has a clue what the label on that little box will read. It used to say twin towers and yomamma (or was it Osama). If you look closely, the little letters Fukushima are currently underneath Nuclear.
Nuclear will always be one of those technologies that humans attempt to wrestle to the ground and create constructs around to give the illusion of control. I am neither pro or anti nuke, but I am clearly pro human.
I really liked the "you can't keep a job" line
