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And I linked you a paper surveying global nuclear costs, showing much lower costs in many areas and no overall trend of increasing costs. Here's the paper again

And I linked you a paper surveying global nuclear costs, showing much lower costs in many areas and no overall trend of increasing costs. Here's the paper again: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421516300106 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151... Skip down to Figure 12 for a quick summary.

pfdietz 4y ago
Most of those points that were low were either France or Korea. France with EPR has lost whatever mojo they claim to have had (those earlier cost figures are not verifiable) and Korea turned out to achieve low costs by corruption and omitting safety features.
- DennisP 4y ago
  The lowest, sure, but those are around $2000/kW. The bulk of the points on the graph are still below $4000/kW. That includes Japan, India, and Canada, along with a lot of early US reactors. Also, do you have a source for early French costs being unverifiable? I don't see where that's mentioned in the paper, so it doesn't seem right to just dismiss the data unless there's another source giving us good reason to do that. As for the EPR, seems to me the conclusion there is just to not build any more EPRs.