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by eole666 1542 days ago
"Literally not a single purely commercially-backed nuke plant has ever been built in 70+ years. Not one."

Sure, let's check wikipedia to see how this is not true : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_rea...

Also, after googling it: yes indeed, in some countries renewable energies are more competitive than fission. But that's not the case everywhere : https://www.iea.org/reports/projected-costs-of-generating-el... Or maybe you were just talking about the US, in this case your statement might be true.

I hope renewable energies cost will keep decreasing as much as it did those last ten years but I'm not as optimistic as you are.

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Supposed purely commercial plants are always, it turns out, massively subsidized. At minimum, they are absolutely protected against liability, so do not need to try to find an insurer, never mind pay premiums to one.

And, mining and refining fuel has been massively subsidized.