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Let's move it out from government oversight. Anything gov touches gets super expensive, especially in the US. Best example is the Obamacare website.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/obamacare...

Imagine how much cheaper you could have built that website with the same functionality. Now apply the same mental process to nuclear power plants.

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Yes. The government should only set the safety expectations and procedures, and let the market decide how they do it.

Innovation in nuclear power is broken because of the difficulty to access uranium and use it safely, but if we had innovated, it might have been made safe by now. There has been pilot projects such as a sealed 1m3 cuve, which, by sealing it, solved a lot of problems about safety and human operation.

The government could never build an important highly advanced technical project in a hurry; the atomic bomb project should have been put out to the private sector. /S

The incentives were different.

Anything the private sector touches has safety issues. Best example is the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

Imagine how much safer it would have been under govt regulations. Now apply the same mental process to nuclear power plants exploding.

I agree, but the argument is a non-starter here and equally so with the general public.

Reducing regulation is a lot more palatable to people than eliminating it.

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