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Re:U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned by ricw on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @10:47AM (#14901170)
A quick google Search states that there are 449 currently active reactors. Pair that with 50+ years of mass usage, and we have a pretty large data set that should be more than sufficient to calculate the risk.

And as I stated previously: gas and oil are historically not low at all. They are only low compared to 5 years ago.

Nuclear is reallly expensive and risky. That's why it's failing.

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Re:U.S. Nuclear Comeback Stalls as Two Reactors Are Abandoned by iso-8859-1 on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @11:13AM (#14901510)
Failing? In China (2015), nuclear was the fastest-growing electricity source (29% growth).
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