@jima @dahukanna @risottobias Every nuclear power generation facility on the planet is MASSIVELY subsidized by governments. They're so expensive to operate and maintain; the economics of nuclear is completely upside down.

France thought it would get cheaper over time. There's an entire research paper about how it did not.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421510003526

There is hope though. We may get actually affordable privately funded and operated SMRs soon. (Though I would be remiss to not admit that the entire research into these was very much not an exclusively private venture). There's still a lot of speculation that they'll be too expensive, though...