What will replace the aging nuclear reactors in the US? The answer should be molten-salt reactors. Just place them on the sites of existing reactors. You may even be able to use the molten-salt reactors to clean up the waste. Molten-salt reactors have a much smaller footprint. I can't prove it, but it can probably survive any conceivable earthquate. It can be placed far enough from the sea so that a tsunami can't get to it. Even if one did, it could still survive.
The real Faustian bargain is with so-called Green tech like solar and wind. These are mere promises that can never be fulfilled. It can never produce the amount of energy necessary for a hungry world. The risk is that the world will go to war over scarce resources. Finally, a Faustian bargain is eternal. If we make the mistake of giving up on nuclear, we may never get another chance. Once we run out of fossil fuels, that will be permanent. Solar and wind can never make up the difference. We won't get another chance at nuclear because we will no longer have the capacity to make the change to nuclear if we change our minds.
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