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Because they are too expensive and take too long to build. One gets much more CO2 reduction per $, and much more quickly, from spending on renewables.


Regulated one to be too expensive, subsidized the other to be cheap.

The arguments against nuclear are always a direct result of the previous set of arguments rooted mostly in panic, lack of education, and three small scope issues that range from unlikely to impossible now. But yea. You are right, we made nuclear too expensive to be viable.


The arguments against nuclear are based on long history of economic failure. The same tired excuses are always trotted out. It's all someone else's fault.

Money talks, shit walks. The captains of industry and finance are treating nuclear like the failure it is. No money for this money pit.




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