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Indeed, China manages to build new reactors at relatively low cost with no problems these days.
by AstralStorm 4y ago
Indeed, China manages to build new reactors at relatively low cost with no problems these days.
- pvaldes 4y agoHoneymoon phase. Russia had theirs also.
- Manuel_D 4y agoIt's not a honeymoon phase. It's scale and preserving experience. The first reactors built in the 1950s we're actually pretty bad on a dollar to power ratio. But experience and economies of scale drove prices down in the 1960s and 1970s. When you contract for a limited run of, say, 4 steam generators [1] it's more expensive than a run of 80 of them. Nuclear plants in this period averaged ~2 billion dollars per gigawatt of capacity (and remember that's at a >90% capacity factor). 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_generator_(nuclear_power) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_generator_(nuclear_pow...