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You can’t separate humans from any process. The risks with nuclear are the risks of the most reliable person to eventually work at the plant. It might not be today or tomorrow, but it’s a possibility.
It's entirely possible for a natural nuclear reactor to occur. So yes, you can separate humans from the process. Make a reactor that a human can't reasonably open and has zero chance of melting down, and you have safe nuclear.
Also yes, you can make a reactor that can't melt down (without human interference). It's called an RTG and they're commonly used on spacecraft.
If you could entirely separate humans from the process, then there would be nobody to design and build it.
Then a war starts between a nuclear nation... Oh wait.