[epistasis]

That seems to conflict with the low operating expenses of nuclear reactors. Once they are built, what is the crippling aspect?

[desindol]

low operating expenses over the whole lifetime of the plant including deconstruction or just the fun part?

[epistasis]

Typically decommissioning costs are collected throughout the lifetime of operation, and to my knowledge these costs do not significantly raise the operating expenses. But I'm not familiar in detail with many examples, so if I'm wrong on the general trend, I would like to know!

[desindol]

Typically the energy corps gets rid of their assets before decommissioning puts them in a "bad bank corp" and lets us pay for it.