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What drives nuclear costs is generally rising construction costs. You can’t bring that down with building more nuclear power plants. PV got so much cheaper bec
by legulere 6y ago
What drives nuclear costs is generally rising construction costs. You can’t bring that down with building more nuclear power plants.
PV got so much cheaper because it’s a mass producible product.
- Ericson2314 6y agoIf all the designs were the same you could start prefabbing components, that will do just fine for construction costs.
- corty 6y agoPV is also cheaper because the possibly polluting production is outsourced to china.
- imtringued 6y agoThe reality is that there is an entire supporting industry that needs to be built to make nuclear power plants economical. Nuclear power plants have special requirements that are rarely met by conventional industry. A lot of nuclear power plant designs involve manufacturing via the largest hydraulic presses we have ever built. There are not many of them and building more of them is expensive so it will raise costs in the short term (10-20 years). The design philosophies have to change considerably if nuclear power wants to be cost effective. The monolithic nuclear power plant is a dead end.