Special report: Rescuing nuclear power – New Scientist
New Scientist has an excellent special report on nuclear power. Topics covered include how well more recently built reactors would have fared in the tsunami (many of them would have done just fine), the prospects for safe Thorium based reactors, and this graphic below on the relative risk of various types of energy. Nuclear, as you can see, has the lowest rate of deaths per unit energy produced over its lifetime:
