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Because of the existential threat they pose. They require a military to defend.
More specifically, everything requires a military to defend, but some targets (nuclear power plants) are much harder to defend.
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Watching what China does is always instructive. Despite platitudes to the contrary, climate change is a tertiary concern of theirs. What they care most about is (1) energy independence and (2) cost. So 10-15 years ago they started building a lot of nuclear, solar and coal. As the cost of solar plummeted and nuclear went up they significantly scaled back their nuclear ambitions. For the last 5 years they've built seve…
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Watching what China does is always instructive. Despite platitudes to the contrary, climate change is a tertiary concern of theirs. What they care most about is (1) energy independence and (2) cost. So 10-15 years ago they started building a lot of nuclear, solar and coal. As the cost of solar plummeted and nuclear went up they significantly scaled back their nuclear ambitions. For the last 5 years they've built seve…
> they significantly scaled back their nuclear ambitions. Currently (June 2024) they're all the way down to: China intends to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035, with 27 currently under construction and the average construction timeline for each reactor about seven years, far faster than for most other nations. China has commenced operation of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor, for…
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> Japan (rightfully) has lost trust on nuclear and decided to reset their entire nuclear generation capacity. bullshit. Japan is in the process of restarting all of their nuclear plants. Price of energy had doubled after the grid went off nuclear.
I have clarified my original comment. Regarding your comment: > Japan is in the process of restarting all of their nuclear plants. They are still "in the process" after 12 years, and their capacity is still less than half of pre-Fukushima level. Japan has had more solar generation than nuclear since 2014.