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Meanwhile France is 80% nuclear power mix, and contained costs by building fleets of similar reactors. US construction industry is the issue here.
by wbl 8y ago
Meanwhile France is 80% nuclear power mix, and contained costs by building fleets of similar reactors. US construction industry is the issue here.
- pfdietz 8y agoFrance's costs were always opaque, since they mixed the civilian and military nuclear programs. In any case, France can not now build reactors cheaply. The recent attempts have experienced disastrous cost overruns (a factor of 3x for Flamanville). New nuclear has failed there just like it failed here in the US.