Well see the problem is we'd get the reactor hardware and we'd have to write the control software ourselves ha ha.
replyIn practice though Westinghouse still bids lowest out of the politically viable options these days. Korean and French reactors are rather expensive.
European car manufacturers have been given every opportunity and encouragement to build EVs and the phrase "dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century" springs to mind.
replyPeople are buying BYD because they're better cars, not because they're forced to.
I mean, it's their industrial base. They can do what they want with it.
replyI can just tell you as a person from the Midwestern US that the whole "we'll get lower prices that justify unemploying a bunch of people" doesn't work out like they said it would, and that empowering a potential geopolitical rival doesn't really help either.
That's a fair point. It's a difficult sell to say you have to pay more to help out your fellow citizens, in most countries.
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