My original point was “can be safe”. All four of the plants I mentioned were not safe for one reason or another, whether by internal or external causes. The first three had accidents/incidents. The last, the Trojan plant was shut down because it was deemed “unsafe”.
Here in the NW we have brand new bridges being rebuilt because they were found not safe due to shoddy construction.
Bridges can be safe, or not.
I was working on a toxic liquified gas carrier (ship) using the same Foxboro controls they had at Three Mile Island. They were not completely reliable but we were safe because of our operators and redundancy. We were actually considered more dangerous in the damage we could have done and potential people killed than a nuclear plant when we entered port. Our disaster contingency plan showed damage & death rings in miles similar to a nuclear bomb. We were safe, as long as no external force made us unsafe.
“Give Three Mile Island a rest!”
You never give engineering disasters a rest, you learn from them, or not. Can be safe.
Learning from disasters is one thing. Regurgitating a 36-year old disaster and constantly revisiting 1970s stories that have long ago been learned from suggests something else entirely.
As I said, if you wish to cling to the unrealistic notion that nothing has been learned in almost 40 years, be my guest. Enjoy your wind power, or solar panels, or whatever alternative energy source you believe will heat your home.