False premisis:  it&#x27;s not the safest method (see SSREN, the IPCC&#x27;s study of carbon-neutral energy generation).  It <i>is</i> safer than <i>fossil</i> fuel generation, but not solar and wind, nor, in Europe and America, hydro (India and especially China have had some spectacular hydro failures).<p>More specifically, when nuclear works well, it works very, very well.  When it fails, however, it fails especially spectacularly.