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You could make an argument that those things aren't bought and sold in a free market. Passenger planes and general aviation planes are at least semi-commoditized, but fighters, bombers, spy planes, missiles are all built for basically one buyer, the US DoD. The DoD decides which firms succeed and which fail, essentially. The "market" for nuclear power plants is so regulated as to prevent it from being "free" except to someone whose job depends on that market being "free".


Considering the huge risk someone would be putting many others in by attempting to construct and run a fission facility, I'm not sure anyone should be "free" to do so.


What's your definition of "free?"

I'm possibly free to construct and run a fission facility, but I still have to follow the relevant regulations at all steps of the process.


But a coal plant spewing radioactive by-products into the air is perfectly kosher, amirite?


No, I believe you are wrong.


Good, because it sure sounds wrong to me. Otherwise, I'd have to believe that radioactive pollution is only a problem when it looks bad on CNN.


I wouldn't call the market for general aviation semi commoditized. Even the state of is working hard to create a decent competitor.




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