What if it becomes urgent to reduce CO2? There's a lot of places without hydro or geothermal power, and if you needs gobs of power for, say, making aluminum you need as much as you can get power wise.
>What if it becomes urgent to reduce CO2?
What?! It has been urgent for years.
It if "becomes urgent" (it already is), spending a decade and a half building a reactor won't exactly be helpful, will it?