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That would drive prices up further
by jillesvangurp 4y ago
That would drive prices up further
- rektide 4y agoOnly if we failed to get good. We're stuck using 1970's technology & artisinally handcrafting each reactor. We're afraid & unwilling to try. Oh plus we're unwilling to do common sense things like fuel-reprocessing. Projects like Integral Fast Reactor were incredibly safe, and had amazing fuel-reprocessing capabilities that also avoided most enrichment concerns. But were just politically unpalatable, because an ignorant & tense world wouldn't get that you couldn't make weapons this way & everyone was in cold-war mania.
- option 4y agoThis is false. Compare electricity prices in France (over 70% nuclear) vs Germany (idiotic decision to close nuclear and depend on coal and Russian gas instead)
- jillesvangurp 4y agoFactor in the cleanup cost, storage cost, decommissioning, r&d, construction r&d and things look a lot less nice. French taxes are pretty steep.