The second muscle car era is about over?

Those two failures are two too many, especially Fukishima, where they are one earthquake or removal mistake away from triggering the jumbled fuel rods at the bottom of what was once a containment vessel into reaching critical mass which would result in them burning and spewing massive amounts of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere for hundreds or thousands of years. Add to that, that they have no idea what to do with the waste other than store it in temporary containers all over the world. It's irresponsible and foolish to use them.

The earth is a molten planet with a relatively thin crust. With known drilling technology, that heat source could power a virtually unlimited number of clean, heat exchanging steam driven turbines.

The geothermal to my knowledge hasn't even been widely industrialized. I don't know how practical it really is because of how far you'd have to drill to get that level of heat. Heating someone's house with Geothermal is fine, but for generating electricity, not sure its practical.

The greenies will come back and say no combustion, no coal, no natural gas, and if we are just at wind and solar we will all be freezing to death in the winter.

There are currently 440 nuclear reactors operating in the world. I mean generally if the waste is in rock formations it shouldn't matter. They have to encapsulate the things that already happened of course. But it doesn't just hang in the atmosphere otherwise it would be distributed all over the world. Especially in the Chernobyl case, the majority was deposited within 70 or 80 km from the plant. There are even people that live in "the zone" in Ukraine and Belarus.

In the end it still may end up being safer to use nuclear than to use other sources for keeping population alive. Personally I don't see us ending internal combustion anytime soon but they'll sure try.