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by mmooss 18 days ago
> Nuclear is a politician's vanity project. And politicians do have a knack for choosing the wrong thing at the wrong time, by ignoring the market.

Nuclear benefits the politicians' vested supporters, major corporations. Renewables are smaller and not vested interests.

> Just let the engineers make the call.

That dangerously assumes that engineers don't have their own biases and corruption. It's hard to fathom that perspective given what everyone can see happening in Silicon Valley for years.