I am for nuclear power with reservations.
Unlike many of the anti-nuclear people, I actually know how reactors operate. One of the biggest reasons to fear anything is not knowing about it; many people don’t know much about nuclear power other than radiation is bad and nuclear power involves radioactive substances. Nuclear power can be done safely, but many people don’t seem to know that, especially in the wake of Fukushima.
And therein lies my reservation; I don’t entirely trust the regulators. Japan tried to save face and downplayed the problems. While it’s not as bad as some of the anti-nuke crowd would have you believe (Seattle did not get 750 rads (a far ore than lethal dose of radiation) dumped on it a week later), there is enough danger that we cannot afford to have it run by people more concerned with ass-covering and face-saving to do the right thing.
Three Mile Island had one hell of a meltdown and yet wasn’t that bad a disaster overall.
Chernobyl was an inherently flawed design that was used mainly because it was cheaper than building a safe reactor that actually has containment.
Fukushima was more damaging in the PR sense than in the sense of radiation spilled. The misconceptions and fear-mongering surrounding it has already done more damage than all of the radioactive isotopes in all of the buildings there could ever do.