That's the hard part, though. I think the debate about whether or not to use nuclear is less about whether we can design a safe reactor, and more about whether we can design a human organizational structure to maintain the reactors over their whole lifetime in such a way that people who don't have specialized knowledge can be highly confident that the reactors are being managed in a safe way.
The model of having a for-profit company run the plant with a government regulator looking over their shoulder works most of the time, but it breaks down when the regulators become too friendly with the industry they oversee (regulatory capture). Maybe there are other, better models.
We don't have the same risk with wind and solar because the damage that can be done with a broken windmill or malfunctioning solar array is much less. The public doesn't have to trust the operators to the same degree.
The model of having a for-profit company run the plant with a government regulator looking over their shoulder works most of the time, but it breaks down when the regulators become too friendly with the industry they oversee (regulatory capture). Maybe there are other, better models.
We don't have the same risk with wind and solar because the damage that can be done with a broken windmill or malfunctioning solar array is much less. The public doesn't have to trust the operators to the same degree.