>Nuclear is fundamentally cheaper than nearly any other energy source. It is not, the main costs are simply not included in the calculations. Operators are leg

>Nuclear is fundamentally cheaper than nearly any other energy source. It is not, the main costs are simply not included in the calculations. Operators are legally protected from most liabilities, and even setting liabilities aside they get bailed out if they fail to be profitable. You have to bail them out, there is no option not to. You can't simply turn off a nuclear power plant and leave it. France recently had to bail out their nuclear operator to at least 50 bn euros. We reached the point where we're "the future" that had to pay for the energy that our parents got from nuclear. Our children will be the next to pay for it, and so on for centuries. This means that even in a country that has had no disasters, nuclear power has operated under a cost model that was severely underestimated. The cold truth is that nuclear power is not cheap even in a best-case scenario, and "not cheap" is the most precise estimate we are able to give.