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A US government backed SMR just quit their pilot project as they can't compete on cost in the current market. Nuclear is basically obsolete. We need to subsidiz
by Projectiboga 3y ago
A US government backed SMR just quit their pilot project as they can't compete on cost in the current market. Nuclear is basically obsolete. We need to subsidize it to safely use all the current waste and while extracting energy turn that into safer leftovers.
- p1mrx 3y agoThe problem is that nuclear can't compete on cost with fossil fuels, and we've failed to make those obsolete.
- nickpp 3y agoThe reason nuclear is so expensive and slow to build is overregulation. It also slowed R&D so much that we haven't created and tested the reactor designs that were safer, smaller and easier to run. It's like when inventing the airplane we would've stopped because the high number of crashes and never reached today's safety and convenience.