Comment by tlocke

The fact is that nuclear is extremely expensive, and only gets built where there's huge government subsidy. The subsidy that renewables get pales in comparison to nuclear subsidy. Take the UK for example. Here we have a relatively free market in electricity generation. It's been possible for decades for a private company to build a nuclear power station, but nobody has. The only ones planned or built have enormous subsidies where the government has run roughshod over the free market. Nuclear just doesn't make economic sense.