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It's a little late
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Even if we started building reactors now, we already have to get our tech from someone else. There is apparently only one company in Japan that can make steel containment vessels in one piece.

Again, you have a lot of faith in the ability of the government to run things so much better than the private sector.

Chernobyl was a government project.

The nuclear industry should be, like any other potentially dangerous operation, be regulated. Libertarian fantasies aside, there are some things where lawsuits after the fact aren't going to get the job done.

When I say some people don't want nuclear power, I'm talking about the people in charge, not the average person. The latter has been listening to thirty years of cultural poisoning on the subject, and it's not surprising they're nervous about it.

Compare to France.

Everything depends on what view you want to sell to the public. You're very cynical about your work selling nuclear power, but don't you think it could be done honestly? Particularly when balanced against coal and oil.

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