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Hmm, surely the oil industry has more and better lawyers and lobbyists? Generally the problem with nuclear has been that building old-style reactors is expensiv

Hmm, surely the oil industry has more and better lawyers and lobbyists? Generally the problem with nuclear has been that building old-style reactors is expensive and unattractive, while trying new approaches is caught between regulation that wasn't designed for them, and popular opinion that wants everything to be better without actually making any changes (at the level of power generation or personal reduction, really).

natch 5y ago
> Hmm, surely the oil industry has more and better lawyers and lobbyists? True but the distribution of energy and the whole setup is entirely different as related to the issues I mentioned. Regulations surely have held back updated nuclear tech, I agree, and some of this may have been inflicted by the older entrenched owners of the older tech, and their lawyers and captive politicians, at the expense of newer nuclear startups. If I had to rank things I’d say that solar, although not viable everywhere, is my favorite.