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If you look at large nations that have actually decarbed their grid, they do it with hydro first and nuclear second. Show me even a medium sized nation that is
by evilos 3y ago
If you look at large nations that have actually decarbed their grid, they do it with hydro first and nuclear second.
Show me even a medium sized nation that is predominantly powered by solar/wind and isn't utterly reliant on imports.
Nuclear is absolutely economically viable so long as you build one design several times and don't let regulators insist on crazy handycaps. That's how France, Sweden, Korea, China, and Japan successfully built out. Japan's median built time was 3.8 years during its build out. China builds plants today with $3000/kw capital costs which is as cheap as coal.
Nuclear technology is a proven solution despite all the mental gymnastics people do to insist otherwise.