Comment Cherry picking one's evaluative criteria (Score 1) 409
Cost is not the only consideration. It also by and large doesn't matter - environmental damage does. And build time.
Nuclear power plants can only be built so fast...I believe the chief restriction at the moment is how fast the containment vessels can be manufactured, and there's already a backlog.
What's frustrating is that we're pouring billions into fusion research with virtually no evidence of payout, instead of going with the solutions we have today, and then working on fusion once we've stopped fucking over the planet quite so quickly.