[JumpinJack_Cash]

The problem is that, like airplanes, when something goes wrong with nuclear there are 200-300 bodies on parade for the cameras of the whole world to see. Just the potential for 200-300 bodies is enough for the whole world to immediately focus its undivided attention on the matter.

This immediately leverages the cognitive dysfunction of completely ignoring the bodies produced by all other sources of energy that are not visible because such deaths are not as traumatic nor as visible.

France defeated this problem and one would think that very close European countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg would have started thinking about the problem through a simple cost benefit analysis, being that if something goes wrong with one of France's reactor we are on the hook as well so we might as well get the benefit by installing as many reactors ourselves.

Unfortunately this sort of thinking always works for nefarious stuff and the nefarious type of nuclear specifically weapons, not for reactors unfortunately.

I really think that in order to beat this cognitive dysfunction we'd have to build reactors offshore, like hundreds of miles offshore and then engineer some kind of High Voltage line to get it to where the energy is needed.

Costs are going to baloon into possibly 100bn for a nuclear reactor that would normally cost 10bn but it's easier to engineeer solutions in the physical world than it is to do it in human psyche and psychology.