It provides a stuff ton of power, without polluting the environment, and is perfectly safe. We need more of them, but that isn't going to happen because the media just has a loving orgy when one goes "worst possible case scenario" and smears the image of the entire industry. Chernobyl was a case of irresponsibility and failure to follow protocol, Three Mile Island was an outdated and under maintained plant, and Japan's most recent one was hit by a loving earthquake (protip: Don't build these things on loving FAULT LINES).
Japan had crappy ass 1960 US General Electric plants. The US has those too, but THEY UPGRADE THE stuff after some years. Japan however had the same plants but never did a stuff to safety.
Now they are handicapped and leaking radiation, so every stupid idiot that thinks it is polluting has an argument.
Gah.
I believe the word you are looking for is "trope." This is tripe.
Anyway, solar power would be much more effective in space or on planets with no atmosphere, since the sun's rays wouldn't be mostly stopped by an atmosphere. That makes it a much more viable option on space stations or a moon base. Fun fact, satellites use solar power.
Solar power = nuclear power
Sun = huge nuclear fusion reactor
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