...since it has no responsibility whatsoever for containing its wastes or mining legacy for millions of years is "cheaper" since no regulations cover its external costs, only its internal costs.
By contrast, the nuclear energy is required to "prove," even to people far too stupid and uneducated to understand a proof, that it's "safe." "Safe compared to what?" is a question about which no one gives a shit.
The so called "renewable energy" industry is not actually renewable, and in any case requires a redundant natural gas plant to cover its grotesque lack of reliability.
The so called "renewable energy" industry on this planet is, after half a century of cheering, trivial, ineffective and environmentally unsustainable.
The failure of energy efficiency, even beyond Jevon's paradox, is directly tied to 2 or 3 billion people on the earth - this would be Chinese and Indians - who failed to agree to be desperately impoverished so smug Westerners could drive around in Tesla electric cars made by the subsidized billionaire Elon Musk, who for some reason is an object of worship among desperately uninformed and unenlightened self declared "environmentalists."
The United States built more than 100 commercial nuclear plants in a period of about 25 years while providing some of the cheapest electricity on the planet.
Nuclear plants now suffer from being subject to FOAKE costs - first of a kind engineering - in part because they are scrutinized to death even though nobody in this whole fucking country pays a whit of attention to the construction of a smokestack.
The problem is that the difference between a smokestack and a nuclear plant is that the smokestack will kill people whenever it operates normally, but a lot of people get their underwear in wedgies worrying themselves - in deep ignorance of engineering - of what they imagine might happen if a nuclear plant fails.
That's why we are losing 7 million lives per year on this planet every year from combustion products.
It's a great world we live in; a great world.
Have a pleasant Sunday tomorrow.
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