I think Zeta was a tad earlier than that Mr Ripline mid fities,one was but a snot nose in short kecks at the time, by the sixties one was a man of the world.
They thought they had cracked fusion, just a few years after they fired up Calder hall ( I can remember that as well).
Personelly I think if they been pottering about for fifty years and still not got it sussed, tiz unsussable.
I do think we should start building new nuke power stations as a matter of urgency though, it cannot be beyond our ken to build a safe Nuclear power station surerly, them buggas sandside is shure to cut off the oil again shortly.