Nuclear Power

Nuclear power is first available in 1954, but has high maintenance. Nuclear plants require constant 100% maintenance to remain at 0% chance of meltdown. This chance also automatically rises quickly regardless of maintenance after the 50 year anniversary of a plant's construction.

Further, to increase the realism of "random" accidents, the plant has a 10% of meltdown on activation, and if one plant reaches 100% chance of meltdown there is a 50% chance of it actually occurring at ANY of your nuclear plants. This can be any plant regardless of maintenance level or meltdown chance, after which the meltdown chance of all nuclear plants returns to 0%.

The consequences of a meltdown are not a slap on the wrist. One of three things can happen to a plant that has had a meltdown:

1. The plant has some of it's modules destroyed.

2. The plant is destroyed.

3. Every square in a ??? square radius is destroyed and replaced with "Irradiated Ground".

You also lose money required to contain the radiation, which is obviously not cheap.