It is safe
Chernobyl blew up because of people screwing with it, was a steam explosion rather than a nuclear explosion and was only that serious because, thanks to the poverty brought on by communism, they couldn't afford / didn't want the expense of a proper containment dome.

People live next to reactors on ships, subs, in Hartlepool- all over and don't have any greater health problems than those who live in comparable non-nuclear-proximate surroundings. I'm assured that Hartlepool's inhabitants were barely human even before the nuclear plant got there.

Also, think about this- if we'd gone Nuclear and not had the damned greenies moaning about it then we'd have saved about 50 years worth of carbon emissions and made Uranium-producing countries (Canada, Australia, bits of Africa, etc) richer rather than oil-producing ones (who frequently don't like us).
Apologies for length, it's a favourite topic of mine...
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 30 Oct 2009, 2:49, Reply)