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>Nuclear power is too expensive Nuclear plant construction is too expensive, sure. Running existing nuclear plants instead of shutting them down before EoL is
by scythe 5y ago
>Nuclear power is too expensive
Nuclear plant construction is too expensive, sure. Running existing nuclear plants instead of shutting them down before EoL is not too expensive. What we are talking about in Germany is the latter.
https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-germanys-nuclear-phase-out https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/history-behind-ge...
- throwaway894345 5y agoAlso, from my sibling comment[0]: > Even today, there are some interesting Small Modular Reactor (SMRs) which allow nuclear plants to be built more quickly, safely, compactly, and efficiently than traditional nuclear plants. We should build some of these and iterate on them while simultaneously investing in solving the storage problem. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28671870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28671870