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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Baby step some AP1000 reactors on line.
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Our second primordial energy gift. Still takes 9 years to complete an AP1000. Even in China. And reactors that rely on pumped water are a poor risk for a society that could very well collapse into a simpler state that might not be able to take care of such mega-machines. Abandoned cooling ponds will be a nightmare of toxic fires that will not go out.
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Fully passive safety is easily accomplished with molten salt reactors and is a high tech solution I would be in great favor of. But again, this type of high tech development is not happening in the free market and would require an Apollo mission scale commitment from world governments to bring to fruition. This would be the only energy source dense enough to realistically heat and power Northern Mega-cities and steel and cement production after natural gas tips over the top of supply to a 4X cost in 60 years.
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And this still leaves us short on liquid fuel for farming, mining our last scraps, transportation and road maintenance,ect.