> Plutonium is not cheap. Uranium is not cheap. Actually, they are, given the amount of energy that they contain. > Redundant safety systems are not cheap. Pr

> Plutonium is not cheap. Uranium is not cheap. Actually, they are, given the amount of energy that they contain. > Redundant safety systems are not cheap. Pressure proof concrete vessels are not cheap. Industrial grade power turbines, also not cheap. The list goes on and on. This line of "thinking" tells us to buy our dump trunks from Tonka, because Tonka's trucks are far less expensive than Caterpillars. (BTW - those items are a small fraction of the cost of a nuclear power plant. Add in the rest of what it takes to make power, safely control the plant, AND verify that you're doing so, and you're still at a small fraction of the cost of a plant.) One can't make sensible decisions by looking at costs xor benefits in isolation.