I think more people have already died of starvation as a result of PO than if it hadn't happened. Admittedly this is mainly due to a misguided response to it. Still I'm certain there'll be more, and the question is how bad it will be.

One of the problems that the nuclear power industry lives with is that the original designs, which are still with us, were developed with an eye to producing nuclear bombs as well. Safer designs were not pursued at that time, and not much has been done for 20 years. Granted that this is not a great time to be playing catchup. I guess a question that is going to be asked of anti-nuclear people over the next few years is: "Do you avoid going to France given that it is such a dangerous place with all that nuclear power?".

However, if I can somehow manage to avoid a self-contradictory position here, we need to avoid putting too much faith in techno fixes. We want to squeeze every drop out of stuff we know works. There is type I (autoimmune) diabetes in my family. We've been seeing "cure in 5 years" stories coming out for 25 years. Still waiting.