[AndyJackson]

The biggest problem is that natural gas fired power plants are cheap and easy. Nuclear cannot begin to compete on base price regardless of reasonability of the regulatory stance.

There is no shortage of Uranium for a long long time even assuming 100% electric production by nuclear and that is before you think about recycling spent fuel to recover Pu and U238 for breeding.

[ckilmer]

The biggest problem is that natural gas fired power plants are cheap and easy. Nuclear cannot begin to compete on base price regardless of reasonability of the regulatory stance.
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True. But 4th generations nuclear power plants will be cheaper.