Nuclear Plants Don’t Need a Taxpayer Bailout: Profits Could Top $279 Million in 2021
What the nuclear industry really needs is a much more realistic attitude towards it with regulation to match. The last decades have been dominated by a paranoiac attitude towards everything atom. Yes, we have two major disasters in Chernobyl and in Fukushima but both of them can be avoided at comparatively little cost and with simple regulation. Most of the rats-tail of regulation we have today is not needed for making those plants safe. It is needed to provide an army of compliance consultants well fed.
