Why do people still make nuclear power plants?

The NRC will almost certainly implement a number of the resulting recommendations, and the cost of doing business with nuclear energy in the United States will inevitably go up. read more

Because govs want the nuclear materials, and tech so they can build nuclear weapons or feel “modern”. Nuclear power has never produced more than 2% of the world’s energy. Nuclear power never made a difference, never mattered, and never will except for the millions of cancers it is causing. read more

New regulations will inevitably increase the costs of nuclear power, and nuclear power plants, with a price tag of around $6–$10 billion each, are already much more expensive to build than are plants powered by fossil fuels. read more

Nuclear power plants deliver large amounts of power for long periods of time. Solar and wind energy technologies, on the other hand, rely on natural phenomena that aren't available all the time -- the sun, which doesn't shine in the same place all day, and the wind, which doesn't blow around the clock. read more