Nuclear Energy & Free Market Capitalism Aren’t Compatible

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Nuclear energy has had some successful scalings in the past, but seems incapable of it today. A big part of it is that the tenets of free market capitalism cause it to fall over. The same is true for small modular reactors. As people who like nuclear tend to be politically conservative and hence much more likely to be free market ideologues, the cognitive dissonance must require a jar of Ibuprofen a week. Let’s explore why...