> it is not like there is any technological brakethrough required.
Just like there isn't in advanced nuclear and yet you 100% believe that will happen but reject that the same can happen in nuclear.
Funny how that works. Both relay on a advanced chemical process that have to be correctly controlled.
The advantage is that a few 1000 nuclear plants can power the whole world, when we are talking about Form Energy style batteries we literally need 1000000s large locations to provide the kind of stability need for a global grid that only gets powered by solar/wind.
What happens when a volcano darkness the sun for a few weeks? Everything including transportation will be standing still. You better have a few weeks of backup energy. Storing the global need for 1 weeks worth of energy alone is almost unimaginable task. Specially once all flight transportation and industrial heat 100% depend on availability of electricity.
> It is still advised against eating too many mushrooms or boar meat in my area (central europe), because of one incident 35 years ago, happening 1000 km away.
Yes and that is total nonsense pushed by vastly overzealous over-reaction and fear mongering driven by absurd low tolerance level having been written into law to make nuclear almost impossibly expensive.
I'm central European and I have eat a lot of boar meat and I'm fine.
The actual reality is far more people have been killed by oil, gas and coal then nuclear, its not even close. The single largest nuclear accident in the history of the earth lead to the premature death of about 1500 people based on the best most authoritative report.
And of course that design has literally nothing to do with the designs I'm advocating. Its like saying 'don't ever get into a plain, somebody once build a zeppelin and wanted to fly it by making a hole in the hull and light they hydrogen stream out on fire'.
Go and actually study advanced modern nuclear reactors and tell me how they can lead to mass death. I would argue to come up with a viable case for major damage you would basically need terrorist working together with 2 massive natural disasters and even then its likely gone kill less people then a gas pipeline explosion.
Its nothing but fear mongering about technology people don't understand. Molten Salt reactor can not even produce a reaction like happen at Fukushima let alone the what happened Chernobyl.