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I would advocate the government to protect nuclear plant construction from frivolous litigations, environmental rereviews, and local political challenges, as we
by q1w2 4y ago
I would advocate the government to protect nuclear plant construction from frivolous litigations, environmental rereviews, and local political challenges, as well as reopen the storage facility in Nevada.
The construction isn't the big cost - it's all the nonsense that we do to interfere with those trying to build the plants.
- bilbo0s 4y agoAnd I'm saying that "those trying to build the plants" has to be the government itself. Because despite your belief, the construction is absolutely the dominant cost. You need to contract for specialized materials to make components. Forge those materials incorrectly and it's PHYSICS that stops the project from working, not the government. Not lawsuits. Do you have an idea of how much it costs to enrich nuclear materials? Do you have an idea what the specs are for materials that can contain enriched nuclear materials? Materials that can contain a meltdown? What it takes to construct structures incorporating said materials? I'll tell you right now that it will cost more than lawsuits about the hornbutted swallow losing its habitat or whatever. That's just reality.