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> So nuclear (including hypothetical nuclear fusion) will probably not acquire significant market share. Unless you can somehow make it cost competitive. Ontar
by mabbo 3y ago
> So nuclear (including hypothetical nuclear fusion) will probably not acquire significant market share. Unless you can somehow make it cost competitive.
Ontario is a great counter example.
We have something like 60-70% of our power from nuclear, representing most of the base load. We're building more plants soon too.
Electricity is cheap, and used to be even cheaper before it was privatized.
And we have no nuclear weapons program supporting these plants.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoOntario has cheap nuclear because it's nuclear fleet was build in the best possible time, the past. Even china [0] renowned for pushing projects through and "getting stuff done" hasn't been able to push the price and construction time of nuclear down enough to make them cheap and easy to build. [0]: https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/06/renewables-in-china-trend-upward-while-nuclear-trends-flat/ https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/06/renewables-in-china-tre...
- slashdev 3y agoOntario is a great example where no no nuclear projects have been built or proposed at a competitive price. I stand by my assertion that nuclear is dead in the West until shown contemporary numbers to the contrary.