>>510085751 (OP)The core problem with nuclear power is that the infrastructure is pretty much the single most expensive non-military installation any nation-state can build. There's obviously a lot of lobbying against it by competing energy sources but that propaganda is allowed to fester because at its heart nuclear just really fucking expensive.
It's expensive to build the parts
It's expensive to build the places that build the parts
It's expensive to acquire the machine tools necessary to build the places that build the parts
It's expensive to train the personnel to operate the machines that build the parts
It's expensive to train the personnel that evaluate the safety and compliance of the parts as they're built
It's expensive to train the personnel who design the parts to be built
It's expensive to train the personnel that assemble the parts into the completed infrastructure
It's expensive to train the personnel that operate, evaluate and maintain the completed infrastructure
And because you don't need that many nuclear plants, and don't need to replace them more than once in a generation, all of this development and training is lost between projects and needs to be re-developed every single time. It's the kind of project that completely vacuums up a country's development budget and short-term mandates are loath to make generational investments like that which make their balance sheet look bad so their successors can reap the benefit.
There's also the issue of fuel. France, for example, invested heavily in nuclear power but lacks domestic uranium to mine, so their self-sufficiency is entirely reliant on importing expensive fuel as cheaply as possible, dragging them into political quagmires in Africa to secure mines that aren't already monopolized. Most of the world's uranium is mined in like 3 different countries, everyone else is at their mercy for supply and pricing.
