It can definitely be cost-competitive if you relax the safety standards enough! What could possibly go wrong?
Imagine the equivalent of Pete Hegseth or RFK Jr., but in charge of nuclear safety. The future of humanity is in safe hands.
The same guy that vowed to defund the Department of Energy, was later put in charge of it and admitted he didn't know what it did when calling to abolish it.
The pro-nuclear nerds on Reddit aren't hapoy:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclear/comments/1sqzmg2/fermi_inc_...
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