Engineers don't have a say in whether things get built or not. Politics do, because politics are expressed through representatives of the people and people do.

Engineers don't have a say in whether things get built or not. Politics do, because politics are expressed through representatives of the people and people do. Yes you can make any problem a problem of politics because that's EXACTLY how things get solved: people legislate, and things are made legal, illegal, decriminalized, mandated, budgets are voted, etc. I understand that some people can misinterpret the data about nuclear and have a perception of danger, but to say that nuclear can't be built because it is advanced engineering is as absurd as saying that a tower can't be built because it is advanced engineering. You've been proven wrong literally hundreds of times, and you still cling on to the idea that the thing can't be built?! To say that it can't be built because people don't want to build them at that cost and that it's "just it", is a very very convenient way to dilute the lack of will and foresight into this abstract beast called "the market", a beast that I will repeat once again is absolutely short-sighted (you definitely give no shit about getting a ROI on the order of a century unless perhaps you're Gates or Buffett) and ultimately it is a MUCH bigger cop-out than to say that this is about political will. Because at least political will is about all of us learning about the issues and expressing our will, not about some magical elves deciding to invest hundreds of millions into long-term schemes they won't directly benefit from.