[clemensley]

1) Can you point to negative implications of nuclear waste? Anyone that got hurt or harmed in Germany for example?

2) If it's too expensive it will not happen, no need for the government to step in.

3) Have a look at the link, some renewables like Biomass emit a lot of C02, all energy sources are trade offs

[Schroedingersat]

> 2) If it's too expensive it will not happen, no need for the government to step in.

The government steps in for every second of operation of every nuclear reactor on the planet.

Feel free to pay for your own insurance sans liability caps, find your own loans (without government enforced payment from end users for projects that produce no power), pay for the overruns in decomissioning, and pay for the labour of the regulatory bodies stopping the industry from rendering entire countries uninhabitable.

While you are at it you can control the pollution from uranium mine to the same standard that you'd want in your own back yard and pay for security.

Electricity is a utility and a natural monopoly. The government is always involved and they need to make decisions for what is best in the long term. If you don't have your own enrichment and processing industry then that decision isn't 'become dependent on russia for fuel'. We just saw how well that went.

[Kon5ole]

1) Again, we know it's dangerous even if nobody has been harmed in Germany yet. Related relevant reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incident...

2) The only reason nuclear power exists is because governments have stepped in to support it and cover most of the expenses. If you remove that support, it can't exist. No organisation of any kind anywhere in the world can afford to run a business where income is generated for 50-60 years but expenses continue for 1000+ years after. France recently learned this: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/france-keeps-edf-buy...

3) There are a lot of viable energy solutions with better tradeoffs than nuclear, and it seems reasonable to build them instead of building nuclear power plants. Heat storage, gravity storage, synthesized fuel, hydrogen gas to name a few. The costs of a nuclear power plant invested in any of these concepts would go a long way.