[Bubba_Leroy]

I remember back in the 1970s when fission reactor nuclear power plants were going to be so cheap that they would not ever meter your electricity. Didn't quite work out that way.

Power plants are basically public works projects, whether they are owned directly by the government or by highly regulated "private" monopolies. In the history of mankind, no public works project has ever been built for what it was projected to cost.

I would love to see an alternative power source that costs less in real life than oil, gas or coal. So far, there are none and I do not expect to see any in my lifetime.

[thackney]

“To cheap to meter”

Lewis Strauss, then Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, in 1954.

By the 70’s, we had built enough of them to know better. Most knew it then.

[Red Badger]

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and now Fukushima have effectively ended any new fission plants ever being built..................