Are there any good examples of "nuclearpunk" - fictional worlds that show what it would be like if we had continued to develop nuclear technology?
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Fallout — setting is alternate history post-WWII where transistor is never invented, so tech focuses on vacuum tubes and nuclear until apocalyptic Great War in 2077, games are set in post-apocalypse.
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Fallout is probably closest to what I had in mind, though I was hoping for more optimistic examples...
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Star Trek: First Contact talks about nuclear world war, and then the same technology being used to connect mankind to the stars, causing civilization to rise from the ashes like a Phoenix.
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I've read that if the entire world deployed nuclear on a large scale, we'd actually run out of U-235 fairly quickly, and we'd have to switch to a reprocessing fuel cycle.
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“Where is my flying car” is kinda presenting fictional world of this type, with nuclear cars and autonomous homes and similar stuff.
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probably not a lot, just because most science fiction skews towards dystopia
like steampunk worlds are harsh and violent and zeppelins! but not fun places to live. Fallout is probably the best you could find










