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> "nothing like this will be built again" Oh, but trust me, it will be: when fossil fuels become truly scarce and the antinuclear Luddites are shot, as they ou
by asciilifeform 18y ago
> "nothing like this will be built again"
Oh, but trust me, it will be: when fossil fuels become truly scarce and the antinuclear Luddites are shot, as they ought to have been decades ago.
- sketerpot 18y agoRead the article. The reason why nothing like these huge gas reactors will be built again is because the enormous capital costs of building one outweigh the better thermal efficiency. It's more economical to build other types of nuclear reactors.
- jcl 18y agoThat said, I was a bit disappointed by the proposed shutdown date of "thirty to forty years" mentioned in the article... that they would go through all the trouble and resources of making an ultra-efficient plant, then run it for less than a century.