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Countries should build nuclear power as public infrastructure. National freeways were not built as private projects because it was deemed important for the eco
by pavlov 3y ago
Countries should build nuclear power as public infrastructure.
National freeways were not built as private projects because it was deemed important for the economy to provide access to base traffic infrastructure, even if it wouldn't be profitable for a commercial operator. Why shouldn't the same apply to base-load power?
- berkes 3y agoThis is what boggles my mind in the discussion. The political right, typically for free markets, small governments and against state owned companies, is rooting for an energy supply that is the most regulated, government ran and government depending, of all alternatives. Yet the political left, is against this system, which is the most socialist of all. And is rooting for an energy system that is the most decentralized and least government depending of all (every person with a solar panel an individual producer). I find this remarkable at the least.
- pavlov 3y agoThe only Western countries that seems to have got this “right” (in the logical sense you describe, not necessarily as an absolute value judgement) are France and Finland where mostly left-leaning governments built a lot of nuclear over the decades.