Nuclear plants don't create "thousands" of jobs, solar does.

A nuclear plant is run by a dozen people in three shifts.

Well, and a few security guards and their dogs.

No one in Europe is "pro nuclear".
The plants we have was built in cold war times by cold war politicians against the will of the population.

All european nations are slowly stepping out of nuclear power, even France. Their percentage of nuclear power dropped from like 85% to like 65% meanwhile, and the replacement is: wind and solar. It is just not big news but easy to google.

Historical gas plants where gas turbines. They where used for peak/balancing power.
Modern gas plants are combined turbines and "boiler" plants.
The cost of such plants has not much to do with the (natural) gas price, it is a technology problem.

Actually nuclear power is since decades the most expensive power production we have.
Only "financial" tricks make it look cheap like comparing a 35 year old written of nuclear plant with a brand new coal (or renewable) plant.
The milage in your country may wary.

And probably just as important in this case is YJMV - Your Jurisdiction May Vary. The UK is fascist country where I know it's illegal, I wouldn't bring any device I wouldn't unlock - I'd just make sure it's clean and I can download what I want once inside the country. The US is a fairly safe country thanks to the fifth amendment. The rest of the world? Dunno. Don't really care to research it either. If I was doing anything naughty I'd send it online or even in the mail. At least then they can't refuse me entry or any of that shit.

You mean, apart from the bit where it says

First commercial break and we are at cyber 6

?

First off, it's Québécois, not Quebecker.

Second, I can't believe that he refused to turn over the password, rather than immediately surrendering as any good Frenchmen would. Hey Quebec, if you're wondering why the French don't actually believe you're French.... ;)

I agree! Modern medicine and agriculture is sooooo overrated.

When you begin counting the cost of nuclear, you've got to count ALL the costs. Including, as at Fukushima, basic engineering errors that ultimately cost astronomical amounts years after construction.

Do you know what the lead engineer of the GE design team for the original Fukushima reactor drove around town? A 1959 Edsel Ranger.

Certain mistakes were made back then in the heyday of mature industries like OS/360 and the Boeing 707 that we no longer make. Even the outlandish and highly inflated AI claims from the same era (which were held against the entire discipline for 50 years) are now almost becoming reality with deep learning. Times change. Even for AI. Even for nuclear.

Semi-retraction: Although I just made up that bit about the Edsel, I can't actually claim it's a false statement.

Only on slashdot does someone split hairs between economic obsolescence and functional obsolescence. I suppose the military does too since they have lost all perspective on $ per outcome and only focus on the outcome.

Those treaties were irrelevant by the time the Two-Ocean Navy Act passed. The Iowa class was free of treaty limits, as was the envisioned Montana class. The North Carolina and South Dakota classes were built within treaty limits and were nearly the equal of the Iowa class. I would have sailed with confidence in those "treaty battleships" against anything put to sea by the Axis Powers, including Yamato and Musashi. They can hit first, at greater range, thanks to their superior fire control, and even if they took hits Allied damage control techniques were better.

As far as Germany, she never had the resources to compete with the Allied powers at sea, so it really didn't matter what she built. The submarine campaign could have made a difference and it may have made more sense to pour ALL naval resources into subs, although this negates the Norwegian Campaign and who can say what impact that would have had? There's also an argument to be made that every sub launched represented tanks and aircraft that could have been sent to the Eastern Front....

You realise that that would kill basically any third party country or courts such as the International Court of Justice trying people for genocide, drug cartels etc, right?

To be fair, I have worked with some of these Westinghouse guys and they are fairly universally not up to the task of playing in this industry. I'm not surprised they have tripped over their own dicks.

Most large utility contracts do have such clauses. They are called liquidated damages or "LDs". In new gas turbine , steam turbine, and wind turbine contracts, there are late fees for drawing and documentation, usually around $500-2,000 per day per document. Then there are late delivery LDs, which vary depending on the equipment but $50,000-100,000 per day for a gas or steam turbine isn't uncommon. Lastly, there are startup LDs, which are late fees for if the equipment isn't functionally complete and operating by a certain date. Startup LDs are a lot more of a headache because one vendor's delay often causes a delay with other vendors. Proving what is a "delay" and who caused it can be a major hassle. I'm glad I am not involved in this particular project because it sounds like a disaster.