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story identification - Sci-fi animated TV-series about a post asteroid impact on Earth


I watched this cartoon in the '90s or early 2000s and believe that it is American. I remember that the story was about the world after an asteroid impact. An important detail is that uranium/plutonium somehow stops working, thus no nuclear power. Therefore, there was always a struggle for energy.


There was a kind of world government with strong governors (maybe on continental level). However, some evil warlord with its rebels (in red, maybe) ruled in a forbidden zone. The last thing I remember is that the protagonist (I forgot about him) discovered that another impact might occur soon.


Sorry for the few details but I looked in all blogs, wikis and IMDb lists and cannot find it.



Answer



Chris Colorado, a French animated TV series that aired from 2000.


Show Poster for Chris Colorado


Wikipedia synopsis:




Chris Colorado takes place on an apocalyptic future Earth. After a data-processing bug prevents mankind from detecting the fall of a meteorite, it results in the destruction of nearly all life on Earth in a massive disaster later known as The Great Crash. After some time, many groups of survivors gathered together to try to rebuild and create a newer, more peaceful society, and formed "The World Federation". After several decades of peace, a mysterious dictator called Thanatos, a human wearing a helmet to conceal his face, with an army of humans converted into cyborgs called Thanors, started The Mega War, which ended with Thanatos taking control of Europe. However one group, "The Centurions of Freedom", led by Commander Richard Julian, succeeded in striking back and defeating Thanatos, who seemed to take refuge in what remained of Glorious City (Earth's first world capital, now mostly destroyed by the meteorite) where a strange black liquid from the meteorite, now called "Dark Torrent" by the Centurions, enabled him to recruit a new army of Thanors out of the survivors still living in the ruins of the city and start a constant skirmish-war against the World Federation.



The TV Tropes entry mentions nuclear power not working anymore:



Unobtainium: Magnetite, but not really. Since the meteor fell, nuclear power does not work anymore, and magnet reactors of some kind are used to generate power. The world capital is at Chichen Itza, where a new magnetic pole of the Earth was located.



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