How Mirrors Could Solve our Energy Problem

Why didn't you cover nuclear power in this series? It may not be as renewable as solar or wind yet. But it is a far cleaner, more reliable and a much safer source of massive amounts of energy while using a fraction of the resources solar or wind uses. Solar and wind need 75 and 360 times (respectively) the amount of land that nuclear requires to produce the same amount of energy and on average has mortality rate 40% lower then wind. 150 deaths per thousand terrawatt hours for wind compared to nuclears 90 deaths per thousand terrawatt hours. Not to mention all the waste that wind turbines produce. Once the blades have served their time in the air they must be replaced after only 30 years max, at which point they are sent to sit in landfills where they will be for millions of years because they will never decompose since they are made of mostly fiberglass. 

Now for a comparison of nuclear to solar, the Palo verde Nuclear power plant in western Arizona is 4000 acres and produces on average 30,000,000 Megawatt hours of electricity per year and feeds all the way to Texas and has been doing this since it's completion in 1988, while the ivanpah facility near Vegas which is the largest solar facility in the US at 3600 acres, at its best (which was last year) only produced roughly 850,000 Megawatt hours of electricity.