Why are nuclear power plants so expensive to build and operate?

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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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Simply speaking power generation is boiling water to create steam, which then spins a turbine.

Burning coal and gas is super easy to create the heat source. Anybody could do it. But Nuclear power is incredibly complex to harness nuclear reactions to create heat- the expertise to build and maintain it so it doesn’t fuck up and irradiate your country.

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