Who Will Pay for All the Nuclear Plants?
An employee inspects instrument panels in the control room inside the Paks nuclear power plant in Hungary.
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Nuclear plants aren’t for everyone. Hugely expensive, rarely built on time, costly to maintain and catastrophic when they go wrong — the industry has plenty of opponents. Austria banned them at the end of the 1970s, while Germany switched off the last of its reactors a little over a year ago.