I'm in complete agreement on nuclear power and the human issue with building and operating, though the waste disposal problem is also very real and much hairier than presented to us as young engineers. Every single one of the methods proposed at that time (1975) has since failed profoundly, such as dilution an mixing with cement or creating a ceramic composite- anything to stabilize the crap so it can be stored in a hole somewhere safely. They all failed as the radioactive bombardment destroys the structure of anything tried so far. Other ideas were tested and also failed miserably.
There still is no good plan, and the current farce is that barrels of liquid waste will be replaced with new barrels (aka the shell game) before they leak for 10,000+ years, as if stability of government for that duration has ever happened. At Yucca mtn. in the US, where our depository is supposed to be, specially tagged water was released, and found to show up in area aquifers in only a few years. They also found it to be on a previously unnoticed fault line. No worries, we'll just keep stockpiling at the points of use!
I think a good measure of the rationality of nuclear power as built and operated are the insurance costs; for nuclear power plants, NO insurance company in the world will insure them.