Regulatory capture are why costs are high. There’s publicly available government record of wheeling and dealing, leveraging public fear of accidents, and the U

Regulatory capture are why costs are high. There’s publicly available government record of wheeling and dealing, leveraging public fear of accidents, and the US not being invested in nuclear weapons development, to regulate us in a direction of favoring weapons development, and abandoning subsidy of nuclear energy development. As usual, the cost scenario is entirely artificial, existing only in deference to decades old political decisions. Deference to allowing those decisions to continue to rule is a public apathy problem. The political class isn’t going to shift on such things without public pressure at scale.