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by ncmncm 1917 days ago
The only truly reliable and inexhaustible output of the nuke industry is falsehood.

They were lying before the first commercial plant was built ("too cheap to meter") and have continued well past the industry's deserved end ("incredibly cheap", above). The article demonstrates that even operating them, neglecting all of construction and decommissioning, costs more than alternatives.

"Incredibly" is a perhaps unintentionally revealing admission.