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No the arguments are still the same. We have to build lots of bigger, standardised reactors which will then reduce the cost due to experience and economies of
by threeseed 5y ago
No the arguments are still the same.
We have to build lots of bigger, standardised reactors which will then reduce the cost due to experience and economies of scale. But then of course someone has to subsidise the tens/hundreds of billions in upfront investment to get to that point.
Where as with renewables this was all done decades ago. And we are now at the point where it is orders of magnitude cheaper than nuclear. And getting cheaper by the day.
- ncmncm 5y agoRenewable+storage is not an order of magnitude cheaper yet, thus far it is just "a lot" cheaper. But that is a predictable outcome, because nobody is predicting when those costs will bottom out. (They will have to, at some point, as incidental cost becomes an increasing fraction of the total. But we are not close to that point yet, except on residential rooftops.)