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> What I don't get about all of this is that the hard, expensive part of nuclear power is building + certifying the plants. Not really. The hard part is ensuri

> What I don't get about all of this is that the hard, expensive part of nuclear power is building + certifying the plants. Not really. The hard part is ensuring that nuclear can be safe throughout it's service life. This is what leads to construction process to be extremely expensive, and certification is just an umbrella term that means "checking if the plant doesn't exhibit any of the risks involving pre established problems and disaster scenarios by going through a number of checks."

qwytw 3y ago
> This is what leads to construction process to be extremely expensive That and the fact that almost all nuclear plants tend to be one-off projects nowadays unlike in the 60s and 70s (and of the plants built in the west back then are still at least 100 times "safer" than the coals plants that are currently operated when measured in the number of deaths caused, of course premature deaths due to unnecessary pollution seem to be very cheap politically..).