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How are long shutdown times factored into the costs of nuclear power? The nuclear power plant by me is shutting down early due to being too expensive compared t
by tstrimple 7y ago
How are long shutdown times factored into the costs of nuclear power? The nuclear power plant by me is shutting down early due to being too expensive compared to renewables. It's shutting down next year, but will be slowly cutting staff until 2025 and will require a maintenance contingent of about 50 people after that for the "indefinite future".
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- sitkack 7y agoAll existing nuclear plants that are running or could easily be made to run should be nationalized and brought under control of the DoE. We need them all for base load. But new ones should not be built, we simply don't have time and the resources should be better spent on a massive increase in solar and wind. Batteries, hydro and pumped hydro can follow the demand curve, nuclear should be viewed as strategic. Solar is so ridiculously cheap and easy to run, we should drop a trillion dollars and build as much as we can, as fast as we can.
- manfredo 7y ago> The nuclear power plant by me is shutting down early due to being too expensive compared to renewables. This seems inane. Keep the nuclear plant running, even if it's more expensive, and shut down a gas plant instead.
- tstrimple 7y agoThese decisions are made based on private profit motives. What's good for the environment or the country never even factor into it.
- manfredo 7y agoNot true. France built nuclear plants even though they weren't as cost effective as fossil fuels because they wanted to be energy independent from Germany. Sure, it was a nationalistic rather than altruistic motive but it has paid off in the long run.