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[stefan_]

Budget instability isn't precisely what is stopping anyone from building a nuclear power reactor, it's that when all costs are accounted for it is simply not cost competitive anymore, and certainly not in 10 years when it's actually going live and there have been a bunch more iterations of solar and other alternative energy source growth.

[intrasight → stefan_]

This. The market has voted. Nuclear can't compete. Now fusion may someday be another matter (pun intended).