These other nuclear sources (non-commercial plants) are an absolute apples-to-oranges comparison. Those are non-commercial implementations are absolutely NOT p

These other nuclear sources (non-commercial plants) are an absolute apples-to-oranges comparison. Those are non-commercial implementations are absolutely NOT profitable. When we're talking about whether it can be done safely, what we're really talking about is whether it can be done safely AND in a free-enterprise for-profit model. The answer is very obvioulsy: No, it can not. Especially when you have to factor-in external costs like: "oops, my plant exploded, and now I have just exposed 15 million people to non-trivial doses of dozens of radionucleides which will now impact their health for decades, plus. . . there's the 150,000 or so who can no longer live in their homes, or farm the land their families have farmed for generations, because we wanted to give the shareholders an extra .05% dividend last quarter when we decided to defer maintenance.