Nuclear Power Plant Visit

Today, the first day of 'school' this week, my class and the 10th grade went to a nuclear power plant, located 110km outside of Stockholm. we went there by bus. we didn't get to go inside the actual plant, but they showed us around and let us go into the repository where they keep low to medium radioactivity waste.
I was impressed by the amount of security they have set up to prevent a nuclear meltdown. even if a total failure occured and a reactor core melted, all radioactive material would be caught and contained.
I went into this trip believing that nuclear power should be used, and not outlawed as so many countries are trying to do. I came out knowing i had been correct on the way in. A nuclear plant can produce energy much more easily than a coal-powered plant, and the risks aren't any greater to the environment -- a nuclear plant basically gives off only water vapor and noble gases, while a coal plant pollutes the atmosphere severely. it is only the memories of the terror of the Chernobyl and Three Mile Island disasters that prevent nuclear power from helping our civilization to flourish.