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My point is that, once you’ve paid the capital cost for, say, 1GW of nuclear, the marginal cost of energy produced is low and you can adjust the production on f
by amluto 5y ago
My point is that, once you’ve paid the capital cost for, say, 1GW of nuclear, the marginal cost of energy produced is low and you can adjust the production on fairly short timescales. I’m not saying you should, but the calculation is different from a natural gas or coal plant in which the marginal cost of energy is much higher.
- cinntaile 5y agoThe OpEx is coal < nuclear < gas [0]. This is for regular nuclear plants, SMRs will have higher OpEx. Not sure how they'll fare against gas exactly. The SMR handbook has some estimations I believe, but I don't recall the numbers. [0] https://www.e-education.psu.edu/eme801/node/530 https://www.e-education.psu.edu/eme801/node/530