Advice across the board is that nuclear power plants take a really long time and cost a lot of money. They almost always go far over time and budget. And they’re expensive to operate. Why is that so?
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The biggest issue with the plant themselves is that they were purposefully overburdened with regulations in most developed countries to limit their viability. This was due to anti nuclear, unfounded hysteria, and massive lobbying by oil and gas companies.
If you go to some nations in Asia and occasionally elsewhere they can be built much much cheaper and be just as robust and safe.
This was intentional to make nuclear power less attractive to build as frankly, it’s pretty superior to fossil fuels in every way and even produces less toxins and danger.
It should be cheaper and easier to build but again it was intentionally made hard to do so. This likely set back energy production a half century. We really should have chopped most coal and gas and oil plants to low levels in developed nations by now, but we don’t always make the best decisions.
Nuclear fuels disposable is really a non issue. We know how to do it very well and very safe. But again, anti nuclear hysteria is a thing.
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