[dragonwriter]

No, we wouldn't. Fission has massive public subsidies, and the industry is still crying for more before they will even build more capacity. I mean, sure, if the public subsidy was high enough there'd be no consumer cost, but that's not what “too cheap to meter” is supposed to refer to.

[jimmaswell]

I've read on here that a lot of extra cost comes from politics, like unreasonably redundant safety tolerances. There's also a lack of political will to reuse spent fuel.