More of the 2016 disastrous CO2 climate year, May 22, 2016 4.54 ppm worse than May 25, 2015.

[Boomer]

1. I'll grant you the safe part, just for argument's sake.

That still leaves nuclear reactors as: long-term construction projects that are enormously expensive to build and operate for relatively short life spans, using significant quantities of water.

The only upside is that when you do get the inevitable meltdowns, animals prosper in the human-free zone that follows. Chernobyl has become a fantastic wildlife refuge and we can always use more of those.