I think this is what OPs message is. There’s no silver bullet that solves everything and change will be gradual. Making any incremental improvements to our fuel consumption which has a net positive effect to reduce climate change is a good thing.
Gen IV reactor designs are incapable of going into thermal runaway, but Chernobyl and Fukashima weren’t, which is how they became a cautionary tale and resulted in better designs. It’s like basing your fear of flying on airplane disasters from the 1950’s, and instead driving, which is even more dangerous. Just like unsafe airplanes from long ago, upgrading to safer designs is needed. In order to do so, new reactors need to be built to handle the load, but get blocked because of the fear of another Chernobyl, which just leaves older reactors around that are actually a concern.
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I think this is what OPs message is. There’s no silver bullet that solves everything and change will be gradual. Making any incremental improvements to our fuel consumption which has a net positive effect to reduce climate change is a good thing.
Gen IV reactor designs are incapable of going into thermal runaway, but Chernobyl and Fukashima weren’t, which is how they became a cautionary tale and resulted in better designs. It’s like basing your fear of flying on airplane disasters from the 1950’s, and instead driving, which is even more dangerous. Just like unsafe airplanes from long ago, upgrading to safer designs is needed. In order to do so, new reactors need to be built to handle the load, but get blocked because of the fear of another Chernobyl, which just leaves older reactors around that are actually a concern.