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At least it’s still lower on average than renewables at the moment [1]. I’m not sure what the current state of Nuclear Reactor construction is like, but hopeful
by cpressland 2y ago
At least it’s still lower on average than renewables at the moment [1]. I’m not sure what the current state of Nuclear Reactor construction is like, but hopefully we get some come online soon.
[1] https://grid.iamkate.com/ https://grid.iamkate.com/
- killingtime74 2y agoIf no one has started any (other than mainly China? theres one in France) https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/plans-for-new-reactors-worldwide https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-fu..., why would they suddenly come online.
- Mistletoe 2y agoI feel like the internet hype machine for nuclear is like some dead hand machine gone wrong that doesn’t know nuclear is already dead.
- melling 2y agoIt’s stories like these that tell us the United States wants to triple nuclear energy: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/americas-coal-communities-could-help-the-us-triple-nuclear-power.html?&qsearchterm=nuclear https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/americas-coal-communities-co... And restarting closed plants is becoming a thing https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/30/michigan-nuclear-plant-finalizes-federal-loan-to-support-first-reactor-restart-in-us-history.html https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/30/michigan-nuclear-plant-final...
- blitzar 2y agoI have read these same stories about "doubling" or "trippling" nuclear for more than 20 years. In that 20 years there has been ~0 increase in US nuclear power generation, and in the UK it has halved.
- melling 2y agoYeah, people wanted to greatly reduce CO2 emissions. The renewable crowd said we didn’t need it. Now we’re way behind in reducing emissions. All these stories about AI needing electricity. Where’s the renewable solution?
- blitzar 2y agoHaving worked in the industry, "the renewable crowd" were heavily pro nuclear. Clean coal, clean gas, carbon capture, and the "nothing bad happens when you burn coal I would happily live next to a coal power plant" crowd are the real issue. That's the grift that keeps on grifting.
- jillesvangurp 2y agoActually nuclear has negative growth at this point. There are a lot of aging plants coming up for either closure or expensive investments needed to keep them going a bit longer.
- Mistletoe 2y ago>No new U.S. nuclear plants are currently being built. If it was a good idea, plants would be being built. People with much more expertise than us have crunched the numbers and they can’t make it work. It’s too expensive and that’s why there are no new plants being built. No amount of internet proselytizing will change this.
- melling 2y agoCompletely missing our emissions goals will change this attitude.
- kalleboo 2y agoBoth politicians and investors are too short-term in their motivations to use their actions to teach us anything. It's clear the future is unreliable renewable (solar+wind) and batteries, with some pumped/hydro where it is geologically feasible. Because the renewables are so cheap to build, and the cheap renewables cause over-supply and the batteries are a cheap-steadily-getting-cheaper solution to that. The tipping point comes when we need to start phasing out the base power for overnight and long bouts of bad weather. So the pricing game to be made is, can nuclear be built cheap enough to compete with batteries for long-term base power? Most likely to me is that nuclear will survive in places with worse weather (Nordic countries where the sun goes down for 3 weeks in winter) or poor geography (Japan), and sunnier places (like Texas, or most of the US even) will go full renewable+battery.
- Yeul 2y agoCulture war. The left is against nuclear so the right wants it. Of course it never actually goes anywhere because money has no ideology only reality. Just years of studies and bureaucracy.
- harg 2y agoHinckley point C is under construction in the uk and on track for 2026 opening Edit: potentially delayed by some years
- jillesvangurp 2y agoDefinitely delayed to at least 2031 and probably beyond. It was never really on any track other than for the inevitable delays and budget overruns.