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When I look at it you've got every 2~3 years something at a plant.
Before the incident in Pennsylvania you've got 8 incidents of which 3 were experiments (and 3 people died), 1 was in a sub and one was in a plant were plutonium was produced (to my knowledge this would be for weapons). So basically 3 would have been normal plants (no experiments, nothing military).
After Pennsylvania you've got 1 serious incident (Tchernobyl), one accident with a prototype => experiment, 2 were caused by a human error (not wearing protective clothes and using to much uranium when mixing stuff). So since Tchernobyl was a normal plant you've got 5 incidents with normal plants without it being a human error or experiment.
The total is 9 incidents with normal nuclear plants in almost 55 years that are not created by a human error, by an experiment or because it was military. Every incident before 1990 was probably with an old reactor. Even later I doubt that the incidents were with new stuff. Anyway, 3 with let us say newer equipment.
When I look at it like this it's even safer then having babies. Every year 600.000 women die during labour.
EDIT: 90% of al radioactive material is stolen in Russia. Why? Because there is no money overthere to control it all.
Still, we were talking about nuclear energy. We're going way off-topic since were heading towards the dangers of every nuclear device ever made. As I stated before, nuclear weapons are a not done, nuclear energy however.
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