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At this point, I'll assume that the relevant US regulatory agencies are competent, and skip the safety issues, etc.

  What does it cost?
  How much power can it deliver?
  So what's the equivalent $/KWh?

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That used to be true, not so sure my trust in our institutions is high these days. Seems a few million $ donation to the right people can make all regulations just vanish.

Yeah there's currently a large push to dismantle the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and give reactor regulation authorities to the states.

For all the faults of the NRC (real or imaginary), this still strikes me as an extremely bad idea.

That's pretty much always been the case. It's just much more flagrant and in the open now.

> That used to be true

No, that used to be believed to be true. We're just seeing the curtain come down.

The food pyramid, the CIA's "war on drugs" in South America, the wars with Iraq, Libya.. Just to name a few. Why do we pretend like bribery and corruption is this new thing?

That sounds like an excuse to abide the open corruption that's occurring under the right-wing regime in the US today.

No it's not. I'm replying to the guy that said "That used to be true", because it's obviously not true.

And that comment is overly-fastidious.

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