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Originally Posted by TakuanSoho
Nuclear is not a problem. Take the desert flats of Nevada and Utah and build the damn things, then pour a ton of concrete over them in case they explode (which has never happened, but still pour the damn concrete). Take the waste, mix it with even more concrete and then stack it in the desert.
Can be done in 5 years, and then you can worry about alternative energy.
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The problem is in the metals in the pressure vessels, containment system, the piping for the heat transfer to the generator, which all become embrittled by the radiation, and over time crack, then corrode, then leak.
As for being able to build them quickly, well only if the critical parts are bought from Asia or Europe; the foundries in the US capable of building such things were shutdown years ago because labor cost were too high in the US.