Comment by RandomLensman
1 day ago
Why would, e.g., solar and chemical or physical storage be a stopgap? Why spend 20 years of building a fission reactor these days (other than for research, medical, or defense purposes) which also make awful targets in a conflict? Maybe just wait till fusion reactors are there.
Why would fusion reactors magically appear when the entire field of nuclear energy production is, in this scenario, essentially dead??
Not sure why pursuing fusion needs building fission reactors for energy production.
Because nuclear engineers, plant operators, radioactive mining facilities, and other types of workers that will be needed across both, need to be employed from today until fusion reactors are made.
Because the reactor will still run 20 years after that while the solar and storage will need to be replaced by then
Reactors need ongoing maintenance, repairs, replacement.