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Comment by tirant

11 hours ago

Advocating for deregulation in order to achieve innovation is the opposite of conservative.

It’s not a matter of being a for profit or not. It’s an also matter of technological development. Most of the early incidents in nuclear plants happened under the management of public or state controlled companies.

> Most of the early incidents in nuclear plants happened under the management of public or state controlled companies.

Not a fair comparison since back then nobody else had the resources.

> Advocating for deregulation in order to achieve innovation is the opposite of conservative.

Not sure how it's the opposite of conservatism to remove unneeded government roadblocks to enable industry. That's pretty solidly in the traditional American conservative viewpoint (not to be confused with whatever viewpoint currently dominates the GOP).