The US is getting its first new nuclear reactor in 40 years
The people who oppose nuclear power always point to the construction cost and long delays.<p>BUT.<p>The reason for the long and expensive construction has a lot to do with the people opposing the construction! We could build these reactors so much more cheaply and quickly (and more safely!) if we decided to!<p>This in an argument from unclean hands. Nuclear skeptics, like the ones given so much airtime in the linked article, have been very successful in driving up costs and adding delay. But these costs and delays are not intrinsic to the technology. It&#x27;s not fair if I delay a thing for me to claim the thing has failed because it was late. No, it failed because I delayed it.<p>I wish the nuclear skeptics would apply their delay tactics to coal power plants, which spew staggering amounts of radionuclides over huge swaths of the world, not to mention their carbon emissions.