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Uhh... We have plenty of nuclear plants being run just fine. Built by the lowest bidder is an easy way to misrepresent how things are actually built. They still

Uhh... We have plenty of nuclear plants being run just fine. Built by the lowest bidder is an easy way to misrepresent how things are actually built. They still have to build it exactly to spec which is like a million pages long and they cant cut corners. So in reality its who can build this exact spec for the lowest amount. Otherwise we'd be overpaying for all of oue public infrastructure. The sudden shift is due to people realizing nuclear really is the way to go and were only fooled in the past by fossil fuel propaganda. Its not artificial, the fear of nuclear however is.

hef19898 3y ago
Last time I bothered discussing this on HN, I looked up the numbers (too lazy to do so again): in short, we built 10x renewables per months as we do nuclear. And most the new nuclear capacity replaces NPPs that are shut down. And wind as well as solar are way cheaper than nuclear since Hinkley C got its MWh prices approved. Nuclear is dead for everything except science, medcine, political or military reasons. All of which are valid ones by the way.