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When you account for construction and decommisioning, a modern combined cycle gas plant emits only a very tiny bit more co2 than a modern nuke plant per MW gene
by ancientworldnow 7y ago
When you account for construction and decommisioning, a modern combined cycle gas plant emits only a very tiny bit more co2 than a modern nuke plant per MW generated (ignoring the paper designs that haven't actually been built yet). And it does this at significantly less cost and time to first power.
The time for nuclear was 30 years ago, now it's too little far too late.
- titzer 7y ago> a modern combined cycle gas plant emits only a very tiny bit more co2 than a modern nuke plant per MW Citation needed.
- acidburnNSA 7y agoCitation needed. Nuclear plants emit 12 gCO2/kWh lifecycle vs. 490 for natural gas. Nuclear is at almost 40x better than gas from a climate perspective. https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5_annex-iii.pdf https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...