Because the federal government made it effectively illegal to build nuclear reactors, and there are no more rivers to be dammed.

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WarmWash 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

People will run to point to the spate of new nuclear plans, but the point be made here is that nuclear regulation is so suffocating and costs so extreme that it's "effectively illegal" to build reactors.

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amanaplanacanal 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Is it safety regulation that makes nuclear so hard, or is it just that we can't seem to do large projects of any kind any more?

	▲	WarmWash 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I can tell you from second hand direct experience that the regulations are absolutely over the top, and then doubled for good measure. It almost makes aviation look like running a lemonade stand.
	▲	polski-g 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Musk can. Everyone else? Not so much.

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dyauspitr 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Plenty of solar and wind with batteries are available. Data centers and renewable energy are a match made in heaven. They can be in the middle of nowhere where land is cheap.

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andsoitis 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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