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People say nuclear power is cheap, but I love near a failed nuclear plant that was too expensive to ever turn on. Nuclear shills consistently downvote me for this, but like I’m sorry, I’m just not very impressed by how “cheap” this technology is. I understand that it’s cheap once it’s running, but crucially, that doesn’t matter because it’s so dang expensive to get it running in the first place.
I also love that lemmy is apparently big enough to get nuclear shills
Nuclear plants that are already running are very cheap to continue running.
That's mostly beside the point, though, because, as you explain, they're very expensive to construct, and that's before even getting to the ones that never get completed because the cost overruns get the project canceled.
So I'm always in favor of running existing nuclear plants as long as possible, but am pretty skeptical of building any new nuclear plants.