In the '80s, we were promised this:My father was a nuclear engineer many decades ago. He spent most of his career working with the NRC on regulatory matters and ultimately was a US representative on the International Atomic Energy Commission. He lamented the political climate at that time ('70's, '80's) which prevented further nuclear development in the US and predicted that it would cost us big time. Now, to try to ramp up nuclear and construct more plants would be a decades long task. The regulatory environment in the US, which has such strict safety and engineering standards and redundancies, makes plant development extremely difficult and incredibly costly. While the strict safety standards are a good thing, I know that by the time he retired, he was on record saying that power companies wouldn't invest in nuclear because it wasn't cost effective and the regulatory environment was too onerous. So far he has been proven correct.
The only way I see nuclear being further developed here is for the government to get involved to make it feasible, and I doubt our current political climate will allow that to happen.
WHERE IS THIS?????