Is using nuclear power plants still considered safe after the Chernobyl incident?
Yes, nuclear power plants are still considered safe after the Chernobyl incident. While the Chernobyl incident was the worse nuclear incident in history and it's effects still make parts of Ukraine uninhabitable, the circumstances that led to the disaster would be very unlikely to happen today. Much of the blame for the incident lies in the flawed design of the RBMK reactor that allowed the nuclear reaction to speed up as the control rods were being inserted. Modern reactor designs do not suffer from the same flaws as the RBMK, because today's nuclear engineers have learned from the mistakes that led to the Chernobyl incident.