Uranium is the most energy dense material on this planet, check out energy density of various fuels on wiki. Uranium like any fossil fuel ie crude and coal has waste issues, its also, due to its energy density, more of a hazard that a tank full of coal or gasoline. Saying that in the 50's nuclear aircraft were built and tested but the risk of fallout from any number of potential aviation incidence put paid to that idea becoming common place. Smaller nuclear reactors are still used in secure trusted locations though, like submarines, ships and even the US embassy in London (you'll need to analyse metadata to find that out). I do sometimes wonder if the eco warriers are Nazi's hiding under the green banner, wanting to send everyone back to the stone age or whether they just like acting as the brake on technological developments that could otherwise rush off into the sunset. Any country would be sensible to have a range of electrical power generation technologies, the isotopes from nuclear fuel can be used in medicines, depleted uranium in military armour (tanks) and ballistics. In fact when the US dropped the nukes on Japan, the ensuing scientific knowledge gained spawned the radiotherapy developments in cancer treatments, after it was observed that nuclear radiation killed stem cells in bone marrow and the spleen. Doctors even worked out the minimum amount of stem cells and spleen cells to kick start the immune system as a result of the WW2 nukes.
So its hard for many to quantify the benefits of nuclear power and military experiments, but the problems still remain, how to deal with the waste. Robots need to be made nuclear proof, there is a spill over into space technology here as space is highly irradiated, so solving things like Fukashima and Chernobyl will benefit space exploration even more. And there is the attainment of knowledge which gets us closer to understanding and importantly, controlling fusion.
Besides waste disposal could be made into the fastest fault lines of two plates of the earth crust, effectively sending the radation back into the earth's core. If people are worried about radiation, they should look up Radon and granite rocks. That kills more people than uranium waste.
So its hard for many to quantify the benefits of nuclear power and military experiments, but the problems still remain, how to deal with the waste. Robots need to be made nuclear proof, there is a spill over into space technology here as space is highly irradiated, so solving things like Fukashima and Chernobyl will benefit space exploration even more. And there is the attainment of knowledge which gets us closer to understanding and importantly, controlling fusion.
Besides waste disposal could be made into the fastest fault lines of two plates of the earth crust, effectively sending the radation back into the earth's core. If people are worried about radiation, they should look up Radon and granite rocks. That kills more people than uranium waste.