| ▲ | ethbr1 2 hours ago | |
> So its really safe, but also the evil regulations make it expensive Yes, with extra steps. Regulations, more so than their impact on price, cost calendar time. Time, especially for already-lengthy and complicated infrastructure projects, costs volume. And low volume means high prices and a slow pace of improvement. Henry Ford wouldn't have built many automobiles, or improved them as quickly as he did, if every one needed to be individually permitted by multiple government agencies. The failure of nuclear is that it never standardized and scaled to industrially-efficient volumes (outside of arguably France) at exactly the point that it could have technologically done so (~1970s). Had Offshore Power Systems^ begun producing floating reactors at volume in Jacksonville, FL in the late 70s, we'd be having a very different conversation about cheap American nuclear power today. | ||