But in the 1980s, there were successive nuclear accidents in the US, USSR, and Japan, and no country had come up with a genuine solution to the problem of nuclear waste. Local opposition began to grow, and nuclear power became highly controversial. The idea of "sustainable energy development" has since come to be increasingly accepted.
但短短三十年後，一九八○年代，美國、蘇俄、日本陸續發生核能外洩事件，各地核廢料也因缺少終極處置辦法，地方反彈聲浪鵲起，核能發電的存廢遂被熱烈討論，「永續發展能源」政策逐漸取代核電開發。