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Originally Posted by willravel
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. |
I don't know if I buy those numbers. Not based on the numbers my nuclear engineer nephew was sharing with me. And I think he knows his stuff. The alternative is to keep building coal-fired plants. And you have to begin sometime, someplace. Plus, the fission thing he's talking about procides substantially more power from one plant.