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Such a shame that we didn't get to have super cheap, nearly unlimited power by proliferating nuclear because people are stupid and panic over statistical anomal
by jimmaswell 6y ago
Such a shame that we didn't get to have super cheap, nearly unlimited power by proliferating nuclear because people are stupid and panic over statistical anomalies like Chernobyl and politicians/their constituents purposely made nuclear too overencumbered with BS to be profitable half the time. No doubt fossil fuel companies et al played into this because nuclear was such an existential threat to them. We could have been living in an energy utopia but we weren't ready.
- pfdietz 6y agoYou didn't get super cheap power from nuclear because that was never in the cards. And they knew that from the start: the cost of a nuclear plant was never going to be less than the cost of a coal plant, and ended up being considerably more when all the engineering got done.