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Check the rate of nuclear power plants being built. It's fallen off a cliff. The people who finance nuclear reactors already think that nuclear power will be un
by zik 7y ago
Check the rate of nuclear power plants being built. It's fallen off a cliff. The people who finance nuclear reactors already think that nuclear power will be uneconomic in the lifetime of any new plants.
- brlewis 7y agoI looked that up. There are 450 plants in operation worldwide and 50 under construction. That sounds like healthy growth. https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide.aspx https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-an...
- imtringued 7y agoWe will need at least 3x of that amount (assuming 70% renewables). Even if you can somehow build 50 nuclear plants per year it will still take 21 years to build the next 1050.
- zik 7y agoThere are a lot being decommissioned at the moment too. I'm not sure if that's more or less than the 50 that the World Nuclear Association page claims are being constructed.
- zik 7y agoIt looks like they're in the process of decommissioning nuclear power plants in most places and they're expected to be functionally extinct by 2055. https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/png/10-12.png https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/png/10-12.png