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Expensive compared to what? It’s only expensive if you ignore the negative externalities of literally everything else.

• adrianN 4y ago
  Expensive compared to renewables of course.
  • TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
    Renewables + energy storage are more expensive than nuclear power plants.
    • adrianN 3y ago
      no, they are not
• bayesian_horse 4y ago
  Talk to people involved in the Fukushima cleanup about "externalities" some time. Nuclear power is only cheap if you ignore that in essence, the whole society is carrying the risk of almost anything that goes wrong. A nuclear power company can't insure any of those risks and certainly can't pay the damages. Also hidden in those cost estimates is that you need a highly specialized labor force that is hard to ramp up and ramp down, and the field isn't exactly trendy. France is having a huge issue with that right now.
  • polotics 4y ago
    Do you have a reference for the Fukushima cleanup talk? Any documents, interviews? France chose to switch off some reactors just because one had shown corrosion on a safety tube that is not used in normal operations, has about 0.1% chance of being needed, so all the plants with that tube were shut down just in case. The Chinese are running plants much closer to the metal, have had zero issues...
    • bayesian_horse 4y ago
      There are plenty of search engines. Learn to use one some time. I'm quite worried about China in general. Their inability to regulate various sectors doesn't bode well for their future nuclear safety record. You also wouldn't know anything about Chinese nuclear incidents unless it's absolutely unignoreable.