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by viknesh 906 days ago
Other than the practical reality of it being expensive to construct nuclear facilities (which may or may not be solvable), what is speaking against building new ones?
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Several reasons:

- it takes way to long to finish them, renewables can be set up much quicker

- as they are too expensive, they are binding money which could be used more efficiently somewhere else.

- we haven't solved the waste problem

- nuclear is the worst companion to renewables, as nuclear power plants are limited in their regulation capacity and you cannot afford to keep them not running at a high load or the electrictiy would become even more expensive.