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Nuclear can't seem to be built anywhen, it seems to take decades and cost an order of magnitude more per kWh than offshore wind. It can't be built anywhere eit

• kergonath 5y ago
  > it seems to take decades This seems to be pure incompetence on our collective part. The Chinese do it on time without much trouble. If you take the EPRs, all the delays are supply chain and contractors issues, and a moving regulatory target. Nothing about that is specific to nuclear. > cost an order of magnitude more per kWh than offshore wind. Not quite, but a bit more. I don’t have the data offhand, but EDF Energy’s offshore wind farms have a similar cost per kWh compared to Hinckley C. Also, in an all-intermittent grid, you need to add the cost of storage, which is far from negligible. The true advantage of wind is that you can scale the project in a much finer way (you can’t build half a nuclear reactor). > It can't be built anywhere either, given the local protests This is a problem in all cases. People are not thrilled about wind turbines or solar farms in their backyards either.