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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by hindsightbias on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @10:49AM (#27050544)
As someone opposed to nuclear power, I agree with both points. Nuclear power cannot exist without subsidies for development, construction and all the externalities.

It can't exist in a free market or a leveled playing field.

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Re:White House eyes subsidies for nuclear plants to help mee... by orthecreedence on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @12:33PM (#27052117)
> It can't exist in a free market or a leveled playing field.

Right, because free markets are not capable of pricing in externalities (and in fact they actively incentivize externalities). If they were capable of this, fossil fuels would be prohibitively expensive, and nuclear would be cheap.

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