I'm not going to watch the youboob, but if the title is an accurate summary, I'd say at least DOGE is getting this one thing right... (20.000 monkeys with typewriters may be correct after all)<p>The cost, and never yet solved problem of all the spent fuel ever used still sitting in "temporary" storage onsite at the reactors, means that nuclear is a disaster that only benefits the corps that get the govt contracts to build the things.<p>The "gee wiz" and "buck rogers adventure club" members here on HN (who also advocate flying off to Mars for space ranger adventure) may be in favor of this "futuristic" power source, but anyone who's even marginally objective can see that in the current world, spending that money on grid storage will come online and pay off much faster, and not yield tons of radioactive waste (that no one knows what to do with, and nobody wants).
it’s difficult to believe that American private business isn’t willing to finance all kinds of crazy innovative businesses and we need the government to do it.<p>Do we really believe that venture capitalists or pro-nuclear wealthy Americans such as Bill Gates can’t find a way to finance their nuclear projects?