France's most recent experience with expanding nuclear production, Flamanville 3, has turned out to be anything but cheap. Nearly 6 times over-budget and yet t

France's most recent experience with expanding nuclear production, Flamanville 3, has turned out to be anything but cheap. Nearly 6 times over-budget and yet to provide a watt nearly 10 years after its initially projected completion date. Most recent cost estimates are for over 19B euro - $22B. This buys you a single 1.6GW reactor.[1] The same amount of money would buy 20GW of onshore wind. Even adjusting for capacity factors - about 70% for French nuclear, about 40% for well positioned modern turbines - the cost per MWh is about 7 times higher for nuclear. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...