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Small modular nuclear reactors may end up being a good idea, but they have problems. They require more shielding overall compared to one big reactor. As of yet, they haven’t been built with more speed. They produce energy less efficiently than one big reactor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r_WPtqLp0
“The timing of this loan makes the investment all the more questionable. As CNBC reports, “When asked why Constellation was receiving the loan now,” an Energy Department official said, “Constellation could have completed the project without help from the Energy Department. But the loan will help make electricity cheaper for consumers on the grid operated by PJM Interconnection, which serves more than 65 million people across 13 states.”
Wanting to reduce electricity rates may be a worthwhile goal—energy costs are outpacing inflation and are rising faster in some states with a higher concentration of data centers—but pouring public money into restarting nuclear power plants is not the best way to achieve this.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/19/three-mile-island-can-restart-without-subsidies-the-federal-government-is-giving-it-1-billion-anyway/
“Nuclear power is clean, reliable, and safe, but forcing taxpayers to bet on its future success is risky. After thriving throughout the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, the industry has been plagued by P.R. disasters and project failures that have hampered nuclear power for much of the last 30 years.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/29/republican-socialism-goes-nuclear-trump-bets-80-billion-on-government-backed-energy/
Radiation below a certain level is harmless toward humans. It may even be helpful as the body ramps up to heal the radiation damage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzdLdNRaPKc
“Unreasonably strict radiation exposure limits are holding back nuclear power development, according to a July report from Idaho National Laboratory (INL) researchers. The report challenges the current model for radiation exposure, arguing that recent evidence shows it is biologically unwarranted.”
https://reason.com/2025/10/18/radiation-rules-are-stalling-nuclear-power/
“States that embrace renewable energy are far more likely to save money for electricity consumers than those relying on fossil fuels or nuclear power, a POLITICO analysis of federal and industry data shows — findings that undermine one of the Trump administration’s main justifications for its aggressive rollback of federal clean energy policies.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/07/green-electricity-costs-cheap-trump-00594123
“it’s not the policy that’s holding nuclear back: It’s the industry. All the incentives and permitting reforms the government can muster won’t change the basic economics that have led to just three new nuclear plants getting built in the U.S. this century: It takes too long, is too expensive and is only getting pricier.”
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” The nuclear industry has as much going for it right now as it’s ever had. U.S. electricity demand is growing for the first time in 20 years as data centers and artificial intelligence companies proliferate.”
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“The average cost of large-scale solar has fallen 84 percent since 2009, to $58 per megawatt-hour, while nuclear power has risen 47 percent, to $180”
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“the problem isn’t limited to the U.S. The U.K., France and Finland have all seen major cost and timeline overruns with their most recent plants. China, which is building more nuclear than anyone, has gotten its timelines down the farthest but is still around 7 years,”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/09/gop-dems-nuclear-energy-industry-problems-debra-kahn-column-00344370
Iran was creating the precursors of a nuke. Such precursors were not needed for peaceful nuclear energy. The bombings may have only set Iran back from building a nuclear device by months.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjQFxKKaJJ8
American stealth bombers strike Iran’s nuclear facilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzigSEip1sM
Will Trump’s Regulatory Reforms Do Enough To Unleash Nuclear Energy?
https://reason.com/2025/05/27/will-trumps-regulatory-reforms-do-enough-to-unleash-nuclear-energy/