General Discussion

...that was made in 1954 that nuclear energy would be "too cheap to meter" you are very old. You must be well into your 80's.

If so, your generation, and mine, left humanity with a burning planet, because we held nuclear energy, and only nuclear energy to a standard you hold for nothing else, based on a remark by an idiot in the 1950's.

What form of energy is "too cheap to meter?" Name one that you will not use because it's too cheap to meter.

The reason the planet is burning is that people hold nuclear energy to standards they hold for nothing else.

As it happens, my son is in his last year of graduate school for obtaining his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering with specific focus on reactor and fuel materials.

The amount of steel required for building a nuclear reactor - not steel per se but advanced alloys - is trivial, much less that the steel consumed to destroy wilderness to make industrial parks for wind turbines. In fact, nuclear energy is the most parsimonious user of metals there is.

I can't say that I believe you have even a passing familiarity with nuclear energy.