How to Build 6000 Nuclear Plants By 2050

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A plentiful energy supply is the key to bringing the world’s population up to a decent standard of living. We asked an experienced nuclear engineer how many nuclear plants we would need, and how to get the job done. Here are his answers.

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In 1997-1998, I made an estimate of how many nuclear plants would be needed by 2050. It reflects an economy that is directed to provide the energy necessary to meet basic human needs, especially for the developing regions. The initiative required is not unlike what the U.S. government did under Roosevelt to bring electric power to rural areas; to provide transportation by building roads and highways, canals, railroads, and airlines; to develop water supplies and irrigation systems, to provide telephone service, medical, and hospital services; and many other programs that were essential to lift regions out of poverty. That is, to meet the needs of people outside of the mainstream of economic life, even if those people are the farmers providing our food and clothing, miners providing our coal and steel, and so on. However, as economist Lyndon LaRouche has proposed, we need to do more to meet those needs, both within the United States and for the developing world, to bring those people into the economic mainstream, instead of leaving them just as cheap sources of our labor and raw materials.
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The projections I made for nuclear energy in 2050 simply took the role of nuclear energy to provide for roughly one third of the energy demand in 2050, which was taken to grow by about a factor of 3 from 2000. But, of course, that begs the question: Can fossil fuels continue to provide energy at the same level, or a moderate increase as today, to produce about one third of the energy demand in 2050? And can hydro, wind energy, and other alternatives (for example, tidal and wave energy), provide the other third, also the equivalent of 100 percent of today’s total energy use?
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