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Actually most nuclear advocates (not you personally) seem to be suffering from a form of reversalism from my viewpoint - a worldview that wants to return to the 1950's.
Solar power is the biggest available source of energy and will be the cheapest within a decade or two (large scale CSP is already cheaper than nuclear power if decommissioning costs are included - something the pro-nuclear camp always avoids).
It makes no sense to avoid making this the core of our future energy strategy and to instead try and base it on the crumbly foundation of nuclear which requires the extraction of a finite material with large attendant pollution, waste disposal and weapons proliferation issues (amongst others).
As for your comment about population, I've noted many times that there is no need for collapse, and I think the dieoff camp are, frankly, a bunch of ecofascist nuts - check out Jay Hanson's "War Socialism" site for a demonstration of why. By and large population crash doomers should be treated with extreme caution.
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.
PO hasn't occurred yet, so people can't have died of starvation because of it. People have been dying of starvatyion ever since people existed - and they were dying in large numbers decades ago when both oil and food were plentiful.
We've been waiting for safe and clean nuclear power forever. I suspect we'll always be waiting.
Meanwhile we could be building large scale solar and wind power facilities right now, instead of talking about what we could possibly do to fix nuclear.