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Originally Posted by thingstodo
We can power everything we need with clean electricity powered from nuclear plants. I've learned a great deal about that over the past few years since I have a nephew that graduated from GA Tech a few years ago with a degree in nuclear engineering. In fact, Europe (France with some other participating countries - and the USA backed out but now wants in) has a new nuclear technology using fission. You'll see that hitting its stride by 2020 or sooner.
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In order to replace oil with nuclear, we'd need to build something like
10,000 nuclear reactors (Breeder reactors). At a cost of $3-5 billion per reactor, that would cost at least $30,000,000,000,000 or $30 trillion. And that doesn't even compensate for rising energy requirements that will continue to rise as 10,000 nuclear reactors were built, which would take about 25 years.