In theory, nuclear power should have been a vital part of a comprehensive strategy to stop climate change in its tracks.

In practice, human greed and stupidity makes them more dangerous and expensive than they should be as well as reflexively feared by the marching morons who prefer the status quo of belching coal into the atmosphere without limit and inadvertently providing them with more radiation exposure than nuclear power.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-r...

So I think nuclear power is a great example actually of what really happens when the monkeys get their hands on otherwise cool technology.