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The costs of nuclear are 80% in managing regulatory burdens, where laws require recertifying a design for every unit constructed and spurious lawsuits postpone
by veqq 1y ago
The costs of nuclear are 80% in managing regulatory burdens, where laws require recertifying a design for every unit constructed and spurious lawsuits postpone beginning construction for a decade etc.
- ViewTrick1002 1y agoNope. The costs comes from being absolutely enormous civil project. Construction workers haven’t gotten meaningfully more efficient while the salaries have risen based on industries with efficiency gains. It seems like nuclear power has an extremely tiny sweet spot in countries development curve where it is only very expensive. Right where salaries are still low but the knowhow for advanced technology has started to burgeon. For example India and China. Although China has been cutting back their nuclear program in favor of renewables for a while now.
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- repelsteeltje 1y agoAnother data point is to consider the price of nuclear submarines, in the 10s of billions. Admittedly, military spending leaves room for misestimation but the point is that many if not most of regulation around nuclear plants does not apply to marine vessels. Safety still plays a major role, but a very different one. More pragmatic, less regulatory.