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Its not just in China that you can build cost effective nuclear. There are other places as well. South Korea for example has shown itself very effective. The p
by nickik 8y ago
Its not just in China that you can build cost effective nuclear. There are other places as well. South Korea for example has shown itself very effective.
The problem in the US is that there is only so few builds, these large projects can only be effective if you 'mass' produce these buildings so people have done it before.
Actually it was looking good for building many new plants in 2007 but sadly it all collapsed because of cheap gas and the financial crisis.
- dv_dt 8y agoChina has scaled back its plans for nuclear plants, in part perhaps because even in China the cost and risk profile of nuclear vs renewables seems to demand a reexamination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_China
- nickik 8y agoThey have scaled it back somewhat but it is still a huge program and they are developing many types of reactors and also buy many types of reactors at the same time. The difference is that china is totally happy with continuing to use massive amount of coal and other things for baseload power. While it is true that they are investing massively in renewables, specially in the places it makes sense, they also are building nuclear plants and coal plants. In the west we aim to reduce the number of coal plants, and that is very much harder with renewables.