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Thanks for reminding of the increasingly economical non-nuclear non-fossil options. On the matter of Minnesota nuclear plants: I would caution that the perceiv
by redwood 14y ago
Thanks for reminding of the increasingly economical non-nuclear non-fossil options.
On the matter of Minnesota nuclear plants: I would caution that the perceived cheap power is a result of significant expenses born by the populous as a whole decades ago... expenses that aren't in your power bill today but worth remembering. And similarly, there will eventually be significant expenses born by society as a whole to deal with the waste.
The fact that waste is piling up at all reactor sites---and don't think that's not a hazard in natural disaster/accident situations, let alone targeted strikes---means there is a significant not-yet-quantifiable cost uncertainty inherent to nuclear power.
Cost uncertainty has to be thought of as a significant cost, even higher than the potential cost will actually turn out to be, since we need to assume the worst when we don't know.
Thus if we really want to talk about the true cost of existing nuclear power: it's far higher than what you're paying today per KWh
- KitemanSA 14y agoFirst, the government spent all that money for their own purposes. The design and construction of commercial Nuclear Power Plants has been on the user since day one. also, NPPs have been paying into a fund to handle Spent Nuclear Fuel. There is plenty of money to handle it, except that government can spend way more on anything than any rational person can imagine. The fed gov has spent ~$16B on "renewable energy" recently. With 1/10th that money, LFTRs could have been coming off the assembly line at 100MW/day by now. And those plants could be eliminating that SNF as we speak.