Western firm nuclear is held back by policy more than physics: the US started and finished only three reactors from 1973 to 2024, so the last-20% firm-power node waits on how governments weigh risk, not on reactor design.

Evidence 1 passage

• groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson

  Between 1973 and 2024, the country started and finished only three new nuclear reactors, and it has shut down more nuclear plants than it has opened in most of our lifetimes.

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