> but once you disregard that and let them build their project suddenly you get budget overruns, delayed schedules and failed projects and surprise cleanup cost

> but once you disregard that and let them build their project suddenly you get budget overruns, delayed schedules and failed projects and surprise cleanup costs from decommissioning. Those idiots are NEVER disregarded, they've put in place a huge amount of extremely expensive regulation that makes nuclear 10x as expensive as it would be otherwise (compare 1980 nuclear power cost per KW to today), all to prevent the occasional Fukishima which kills one person and makes a couple of square miles uninhabitable (technically theres another 200 you evacuate from for a few weeks and then another 20 for a decade or so but a brief look at Fukishima radiation maps[1] shows nothing that would be over the cancer detection threshold[2]). [2] https://xkcd.com/radiation/ https://xkcd.com/radiation/ [1] https://jciv.iidj.net/map/ https://jciv.iidj.net/map/