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The biggest joke about this is that subsidies are not what's preventing nuclear power. It's your states DNR, the EPA, NIMBY's, and the market containing very fe
by MeinBlutIstBlau 5y ago
The biggest joke about this is that subsidies are not what's preventing nuclear power. It's your states DNR, the EPA, NIMBY's, and the market containing very few people to employ for the job. How is getting a subsidy gonna help when the EPA protects wetlands? How is a cheaper reactor for a power company going to help when the DNR says you have to fulfill absurd rules when constructing in an area that ruins wildlife but satisfies the NIMBY's? What about NIMBY's who get to petition construction near them? Nuclear power just isn't gonna happen here and subsidies are just gonna be trickle up kickbacks to CEO's. There is too much government mandated bureaucracy involved that prevents this. Environmentalists and pro nuclear power people typically want their cake and eat it too. Too bad to make for "greener" energy, you have to destroy a significant part of the world to do it meaning lax EPA regulations. But to do that would be an affront for some outrageous impossible to maintain morality system. Sometimes you gotta bend the rules to get good things done.