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by worik 858 days ago
> The nuclear industry needs to figure out how to make it a lot cheaper. And no, it's not just the NIMBY regulation.

It is very expensive, there is no way around the extreme engineering costs of nuclear reactors. Even before trying to make then safe from threats extant and possible.

That is before the unknown costs of handling long term waste using technology that has not been proven, or invented, yet