Nuclear reactors are extremely critical to any reconstruction effort. Without them you're stuck with an essentially 1800s tech base, since the chemicals for anything more advanced requires massive inputs of power to produce, and the reactors are extremely effecient in terms of man-hours per kilowatt, which is huge given conditions on the ground (more to do, less hands to do it, ie labor shortage). Hydro-electric can work as well, but there are fewer really big hydro plants than there are reactors.
What keeps more of them (reacotrs) from being brought back on line wouldn't be a lack of oeprators, but the requirement for a large body of troops to secure it, and the fields to feed everyone. Security is problem 1.
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Living reactionary fossil says; "Honor is the duty we owe to ourselves, and pity those who have nothing worth dying for, for what is it that they live for?"
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