And you expect to guarantee that the technology will NEVER be in the hands of underpaying bureaucrats and incompetent engineers? In this regard, nuclear power apologists are no better than any socialist.
On the one hand, safeguards and checks are frequently ignored by the people meant to enforce them, be they agencies, governments, or third-party companies.
On the other hand, nuclear power plants are pretty much the only thing that will satisfy the power-needs that are going to be demanded in the next ten, twenty years (that includes the power needed for desalination plants), unless you're a lucky ass country like Iceland that has geothermal through the wazzoo.
Wind turbines? Not cost effective, not power effective, and actually create a ton of pollutants during their initial production. The blades after their life-cycle are just dumped and cannot rot or be recycled.
Tidal? You have to make sure they're in strong currents, but are still easily accessible for maintenance, and also they're not in the way of shipping lanes. Examples like the Thames Barrier are pretty much the exception to the rule, as barriers like that can't be implemented anywhere. Dams? They could work, but then you run into the issues of where and "will it piss off my neighbor?" (e.g. Egypt, the Nile, the dam being built by a country downstream from the Nile which would affect Egypt's survival).
Even in big countries like the USA or China where you're not at risk of pissing off another country, you'd still limited to where you can build a dam as it would run into the same problems e.g. affecting the water-supply, environment, et cetera.
Coal and oil? Pollute the shit out of the environment.
Natural gas is cleaner, but on the whole it isn't enough to meet global energy demands alone.
So, yes: Modern nuclear reactors are pretty much the only way forward until we develop something more viable/more effective because everything else? Too limited, too damaging, or just too ineffective.
If I'm a socialist for not wanting to live in the dark and cold because "green power will save us!" or I'm averse to oil and coal on a mass scale fucking up the enviroment when there's a better, cleaner alternative? I guess I'm a socialist.