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Lol no. Nuclear usually is used to generate baseload and often loses a fortune. The amortized capital costs are so high that many of these plants get shut down
by Spooky23 4y ago
Lol no. Nuclear usually is used to generate baseload and often loses a fortune.
The amortized capital costs are so high that many of these plants get shut down because they lose money. The HN pro-nuclear response is of course always “well, if we didn’t have [regulation] or could build some new nuclear tech everything would be awesome”.
- pfdietz 4y agoThey are shut down, but not because the capital cost is so high. They are shut down because the operating cost is too high.
- brutusborn 4y agoYeah my bad, I had a look at my notes and renewables has become a lot cheaper since I looked. I can't find good data on storage but that will have certainly become cheaper too.