Some current traditional reactor designs take 5 years. Some SMR designs from 500 days to 2-3 years. In any case, let's assume for the sake of the argument, tha

Some current traditional reactor designs take 5 years. Some SMR designs from 500 days to 2-3 years. In any case, let's assume for the sake of the argument, that our industrial goes up 100x in energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_I_civilization_methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_I_civiliz... Can you run that on batteries, that are fundamentally constrained due to ion weight, and therefore are ultimately capped(page 2): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/781/4/042023/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/781/4/0... Any significantly sized industry will require dense energy, situated nearby. There is a reason why China is building more nukes in the next 15 years, than the totality in existence globally today. Any other approach is Malthusianism.