Price probably played a pretty big role, too. The up front cost of a new nuclear plant is eye watering. Hard to compete against solar & battery these days which can be spun up in months and cost comparatively pennies.

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rtkwe 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's also true, partially driven by a lot of hurdles and time spent fighting for approval due to the anti-nuclear push due to the things I mentioned, but it is also just expensive to build in the US because our labor and land is pretty expensive too.

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triceratops 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Is there a study that pinpoints which nuclear regulations are unnecessary and how much they add to the LCoE of a nuke plant?

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rtkwe 13 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm thinking more of the cycles of community approval that can drag on and delay the project rather than individual ongoing regulations.

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triceratops 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Why are these rounds of community consultation allowed? Surely legislatures ought to be able to pre-empt them.

	▲	no-name-here 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Disallow community input just for building nuclear in a community, or also disallow community input for all public and private zoning, and infrastructure proposals, transit proposals, etc?

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BobaFloutist 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean concrete is also just really expensive. A lot of the cost is labor, yes, but still.

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pfdietz 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And the price was escalating even before TMI and Chernobyl.