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>The empirical evidence has nuclear being uncompetitively expensive

I have a solution, take the subsidies spent on "renewables" and put them into nuclear! Easy peasy!

Too late, governments have already subsidized nuclear more than they've subsidized renewables.

Renewables have shown excellent experience effects. These effects are a kind of positive externality: improvements in the technology become available generally to future consumers. It makes sense to subsidize positive externalities, just as it makes sense to penalize negative ones.

If nuclear had shown good experience effects it too would have merited its subsidies. Unfortunately it hasn't done that.

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