It's really quite unfortunate that the promise was not delivered, mostly for political reasons. I hope that a new wave of reactors and the dire need for clean energy restarts the nuclear race.
One excellent nerd-sniping side-effect of those political reasons is that the good folks of Austria built an entire nuclear power station and then never put it into service [0]. Open for guided tours on Fridays [1].
abirch · · focus · HN ↗
"It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter,..." Lewis Strauss
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter#Origins" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter#Origins
Oddly enough my power bill was metered and big.
etatester · · focus · HN ↗
FearNotDaniel · · focus · HN ↗
[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Plant" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwentendorf_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
[1] <a href="https://windows2008.zwentendorf.com/en/location-npp/" rel="nofollow">https://windows2008.zwentendorf.com/en/location-npp/