Nuclear Power

Nuclear power. Not to be mispronounced as new-cu-lar. Nuclear power is the cleanest, most efficient energy source on the planet, as far as we know. It creates massive amounts of power with little to no effort. I looked up how it works, and it's pretty fascinating: it works when radioactive uranium rods are used to heat and boil water, which turn turbines. So it's basically like all energy sources, man finding a way to have a force create friction. As opposed to coal power, which burns its fuel to create heat, the uranium rods react to generate energy.
So why is it that we aren't capitalizing on this awesome force? Well, unfortunately the word nuclear is an unattractive title, most people associating it with something catastrophic. There have also been several accounts of nuclear power going wrong, Chernobyl being the most famous example. Radioactivity is its vice, most people regarding the energy source as just a ticking time bomb waiting to give them cancer and deform their yet-to-be-born children. President Obama have said that he thinks we can take steps in the right direction to make nuclear power a clean and efficient source of energy, but other Democrats fear it and think we have other alternatives. The problem about this is that while Democrats whine about nuclear power, they are stingy in funding research in alternative resources. So what we have are a bunch of lawmakers damning our current addiction to oil while not taking the initiative to solve issue.
I believe that a suffix should not define the noun, and that the term nuclear shouldn't be an immediate alarm-raiser. All great endeavors come with risk, and usually the greater the risk the greater the payoff. I wish that congress would buckle down and reconcile their neurotic grievances, and would give this energy resource a chance.