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Every safety system makes it more expensive to run and they're already not profitable, do you really think they'll just keep throwing money into it without cutting corners? One little economic downturn and we start getting problems...
Why even risk it when we could have far better systems from the start? Nuclear is nice in science fiction but when you actually have to plug the numbers into the real world it doesn't look good at all, especially not compared to wind, solar and tidal