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Originally Posted by Clemson88
They will never kill petro and nuclear. Maybe they'll get one or the other in the next 100 years but if they try and kill diesel they will desperately need nuclear power to generate enough electricity to meet the enormous electrical demands.
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Most fossil fueled electricity in the US is now either coal or natural gas. Diesel not used except for on site backup generators, or some of the smaller island nations. Not sure what Hawaii does for electricity.
Every nuke plant has massive diesel generators to keep the critical cooling pumps running in case the grid goes down.
In Fukushima they screwed up and put the generators and the critical cooling pump switchgear below the expected water level for a predicted tsunami. When the tsunami hit, the switchgear and generators flooded, so that is why the plant failed.