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Let's see, quoting from the second page you linked, under "New builds": Recent new construction of nuclear plants in the west has been fraught with boondoggle.
by Tepix 5y ago
Let's see, quoting from the second page you linked, under "New builds":
Recent new construction of nuclear plants in the west has been fraught with boondoggle. The troubles with the Westinghouse AP1000 have been the most distressing to me personally, since the design was to be the conquering hero of the Nuclear Renaissance I was so excited about in nuclear engineering undergrad back in the mid-2000s. The July 2017 cancellation of the two AP1000s at VC Summer, the astronomical delays and overruns at Plant Vogtle, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse were all devastating.
Non-problems?
- fsflover 5y agoThe reason is cheap coal, not expensiveness of nuclear: If markets valued the low-CO2 nature of nuclear, they’d be doing better