Your comment is straw-manning by creating your own definition of red tape; please don't do that. The article itself is positing a cause. It is difficult to wor

Your comment is straw-manning by creating your own definition of red tape; please don't do that. The article itself is positing a cause. It is difficult to work out what the actual causal chain is for nuclear energy being so expensive. And even if it were only due to pointless rules, it would be very difficult to trim down to necessary rules. > accident led to new regulations But we should not be relying on major accidents to improve our nuclear plant designs.