I cant understand why nuclear is unliked, sure its dangerous but so is going into space.
If the rocket was to explode after take off it would potentially (dont know if that spelling is right) scatter radioactive materials throughout the atmosphere. this i believe is the reason that they dont want to build a nuclear powered space craft.
The reason is right, the logic the people that hate it so much use to get to it is wrong.
Nuclear reactors before they are started have only tiny amounts of radioactivity. However do not try to apply logic and reason to the green movement. We have hundreds of nuclear reactors in this world, we just had three do full melt downs in japan, that were old designs, terribly mismanaged, and hit by a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami.
The outcome?? 0 deaths by radiation...
Currently lightening, soccer, swimming pools, and millions of other things have proven to be far more dangerous... Yet, here we are running scared and closing all nuclear power plants in Germany, halting approval for any in America, people protesting, running scared, buying iodine.
If we used logic like this on any other industry, we could NEVER drive because car's would have been banned, and protested against years ago. Eating would be far too dangerous because of the risk of choking, and music would be banned because of the number of people that are distracted while listening to it and have accidents.