Your claim here is that under optimal regulatory policy we could not possibly do better today than with 1970′s technology?
Yes. I do claim that. Even if the reactors were ‘free’ they are still not better than solar/wind. So if the regulatory agencies decided to raise the accepted radiation doses by many orders of magnitude, and to just stop requiring any protections at all—ok to build a nuclear reactor in a warehouse—I am saying it wouldn’t be cost effective.
If only we had a real world example of such a regime. Oh wait, we do.
Your claim here is that under optimal regulatory policy we could not possibly do better today than with 1970′s technology?
Yes. I do claim that. Even if the reactors were ‘free’ they are still not better than solar/wind. So if the regulatory agencies decided to raise the accepted radiation doses by many orders of magnitude, and to just stop requiring any protections at all—ok to build a nuclear reactor in a warehouse—I am saying it wouldn’t be cost effective.
If only we had a real world example of such a regime. Oh wait, we do.