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We barely used it because it's a textbook case of overpromising and underdelivering. A nuclear project on average has a probability of going over time and budg

• panick21_ 3y ago
  Who promied what exactly. One president onetime said it was gone be "to cheap to meter" so now it can ne er be used because of "overpromise". Who gives a shit? It delivers plent. And if we actually developed fission technology beyond the 1970 we could do so so much more. Nuclear projects in Western nations done as low priority "keep the industry alive" individual projects are often late. But historically when large amount of investment is made, you get very large amount of energy quickly. Lets not pretend that every renewable project is perfectly on time on budget either. Its just that those are smaller and on project being late isn't news worthy. India just finished reactors very cheaply. UAE and South Korea just showed an amazing buildout of nuclear that could be scaled to much larger easly. Finlands project took a while and was expensive but now they have great reactor that produces lots of power for the next 80 years or more. Frnace literally made its grid green in 20 years and they have had cheap energy since. Fission is amazing, fusion is totally unneeded. Not using fission more is one of the dumbest things humanity ever did.