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by simfoo 444 days ago
Markets are blocking nuclear, because they can still calculate costs. And costs is the reason not to go nuclear.
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How much of this is intrinsic to nuclear versus due to regulatory requirements (various taxes including subsidies for certain renewables, early decommissioning)? My sense always was that this was about the latter rather than the former, but I’m happy to be educated.