Statistically safest? What does this even mean Will, I wish you could see how inane it looks, to be trying to argue that a force, which has killed literally many millions of people, can ever claim to be safe.
Not a single historical nuclear installation has ever been made safe, look around, there are sites of uninhabitable devastation all around the world.
Nuclear is something that should never have been invented or disturbed, it is an abomination that a minority found made them some profit.
The cost for using is always a net negative to Earth, it isn't a solution for anything, unless you think ending all life on Earth is a solution.
Macron is just another power crazy oligarch, able to throw 50 Bn at this or that with not a thought, more than what he personally might gain out of it, the people of France know this, we see them marching and protesting in the streets more than anywhere else in the world, and all the while, inflation, that I've shown is happening because of our refusal as a species so far, to recognise how to get the real value out of solar, by monetising the solar product added to Earth, carries on, grinding the value of money down towards zero, so no matter what grand plans the nuclear profiteers have, they won't come to anything, because the money will have devalued long before any of these big nuclear projects come to anything.