> Nuclear construction is suuuuuuuper expensive The reason it is super expensive is because these are gigantic civil engineering projects, not only because th

> Nuclear construction is suuuuuuuper expensive The reason it is super expensive is because these are gigantic civil engineering projects, not only because they are nuclear. And the reason for that is that we are still building PWR that are 1960s technology. A modern nuclear reactor should be much, much, much smaller and thus far cheaper and less risky to build This the core reactor of a Stable Salt Reactor compared to an AP1000 (modern PWR). https://niklauszbinden.ch/images/nuclearsize.png https://niklauszbinden.ch/images/nuclearsize.png > If nuclear were our only option, we would have to go for it. But we now have better, cheaper, faster, more economically efficient carbon free energy sources. Based on first principle analysis nuclear fuel is basically free, and the actual materials contained in a nuclear reactor is very small and cheap compared to wind or solar of equal power output.