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Nuclear is as dead as a great technology can be. A few more incremental improvements in solar and battery industry and nuclear won't be profitable even in theor
by euLh7SM5HDFY 1y ago
Nuclear is as dead as a great technology can be. A few more incremental improvements in solar and battery industry and nuclear won't be profitable even in theory, to say nothing of construction cost overruns.
Reactors are only good at providing baseload but that isn't how grids operate anymore. Renewables are too cheap, if a power plant can't drop output fast enough it is punished.
- trcarney 1y agonuclear plants can cut power as quickly as any other power plant, you are just controlling steam. divert the steam from the turbine and you aren't generating power anymore.
- ViewTrick1002 1y agoThe problem is that a nuclear plant is extremely high CAPEX and acceptable OPEX. Halving the output essentially means doubling the price. For Vogtle halving the expected capacity factor means the generated electricity now costs a completely stupid 40 cents per kWh or $400 per MWh.
- trcarney 1y agoI agree with that, I have just seen on here before that people think you can't regulate the electrical output of a nuclear plant like with more traditional ones.