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The person you are replying to didn't say anything about Nuclear being bad. They made a point only about cost.

Consider that the cost of coal, solar, wind, hydro is under-estimated because we don't take into account the externalized environmental issues and excess deaths.

If we're going to try to account for externalized costs for nuclear, we need to do it for all the others too, and the results would not be pretty.

Huh? We have a pretty good understanding of the externalised costs for these. There is no mystery for storing waste and there is a very strong understanding of how easy it is to decommission. What externalities are you talking about?

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