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Because it only makes sense if you also need to run nuclear Submarines with ICBMs on them.

Basically Nuclear power has always been a military project thats just "Dual use" to offset the cost by having tax payers foot the bill for civilians plants.

Doing that makes the whole supply chain cheaper for the Military usage....cuz mining it only for military usage only would be hella expensive and harder to justify towards the population.

[-] Bashnagdul@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

This is only for uranium and plutonium based nuclear power. There are others that don't produce weapons grade byproducts. Helium 3 for instance and other versions of uranium. Also cobalt is an option.

As long as we want to pay for power, it can be profitable, in the sense that we pay what we need and people who work there are paid fairly as well.

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