and this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/cladding-ma...
and this: https://news.mit.edu/2013/better-cladding-for-nuclear-reacto... <-2013... and still most if not all plants use zircaloy, here how safe are your plants.
Once we have cladding that doesn't degrade making us to store (somewhere?) damaged rods along with all water and fuel i'll become fan of nuclear. For now it's just too dangerous. I bet if all that money would be spent on water, solar and hydro it'd be enough to cover our growing energy needs. Especially using energy from sea (gravitation you know) :)
Girls and guys and atomic energy fans, downvote as much as you want. It won't change reality. Current technology used for rods cladding degrades as time passes. Its not just accidents. If you think its just accidents that is the problem with atomic power then you didn't get into subject deep enough. Go and learn. Add eartquake and Tsunami's and yeah... you have another Fukushima or worse.
Have you ever asked yourself why we still don't use and wont use for a very long time nuclear in space missions? Well, that's one of the reasons. Radiation will "eat through" materials with time.