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> These regulations are only cost effective if you have a value of human life at a billion dollars!

If other energy souces were regulated to the same degree of safety, I would expect nuclear to become the cheapest one again.

The main reason nuclear is expensive, is because people consider it to be worse if a person dies from radiation than from air polution, construction accidents, etc.



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