They said they'd have a solution to that by the time these plants had to retire, but they still don't. We still don't know what to do. We're housing all this dangerous stuff on site for the next 30,000 years, which is five times the length of recorded human history. And how you think that is economic, if you had to internalize that, you know, nobody would. There's not a single public utility on earth that will build a nuclear power plant unless it's fully subsidized by the taxpayer. (56:25–56:35)
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