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Comment Re:$/kW Prediction (Score 1) 244

You vastly underestimate the ability of governments (especially the US government) to come up with byzantine regulations that raise the cost of doing business, regardless of whether those regulations have any actual linkage to the safety or efficacy of what is being regulated. Your profitability point supports mine - nukes good for shareholders, not for electricity consumers. And in some cases the profitability is due to plants that changed hands on the cheap, leaving the new owner free of the initial capital costs.

Comment $/kW Prediction (Score 2) 244

I think it's pretty safe to predict that if fusion-based power plants are ever built at full-scale the cost per kilowatt won't be any lower than from whatever competing technology is generating the bulk of a country's power at that time. Between the onerous regulatory requirements that will be put in place, the greed of the contractors building the plant and the shareholder demands of the utility company we'll never see truly low-cost electricity. The fossil fuel problem may be solved but your pocketbook won't feel any better. Witness how expensive nuke plants got from first to last in the US.

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