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About using nuclear to cover seasonal variation, its not ideal, but at worst you increase the cost by 50-100%. Day/night cycles can make that even slightly wor
by trashtester 4y ago
About using nuclear to cover seasonal variation, its not ideal, but at worst you increase the cost by 50-100%.
Day/night cycles can make that even slightly worse, but even small amounts of storage can even that out.
This Korean study claims that a at 3% dicount rate, the price the LCOE of their APR1400 reactors go from 36Won/kWh (a bit under 3cents) at 90% average utilization to 52Won/kWh (a bit over 4 cents) at 60% average utilization.
In both cases, the costs are very reasonable.