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> The more we learn about nuclear, the more expensive it seems to get This is a pretty gross falsehood. Nuclear power is could be cheap and safe, but we _make
by rmtech 6y ago
> The more we learn about nuclear, the more expensive it seems to get
This is a pretty gross falsehood.
Nuclear power is could be cheap and safe, but we _make_ it expensive by banning any form of innovation and by lying to the public about how risky it is compared to alternatives. The idea that nuclear is bad and costly becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy as the public incentivize politicians to ban it or regulate it into oblivion.
We should not be building the same basic reactor design as we have in the 1960s and 1970s. The fact that we're stuck on big, expensive containment vessels and water is a clue about what is happening to nuclear.