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The real problem is that the nuclear power plant will easily have 5 orders of magnitude construction costs associated with it. And historically a 10 times longe
by jerven 11y ago
The real problem is that the nuclear power plant will easily have 5 orders of magnitude construction costs associated with it. And historically a 10 times longer construction period. i.e. you have 7 years no power then a 1 GW is added to the grid with nuclear. While wind parks are much more gradual in rolling into production.
This more modular approach to current wind power is also why wind parks tend to end at 300MW nameplant capacity. If you need more power its better to have more tenders for WEPs and benefit from improved technology and economics for the next phase.
Nuclear could be modular and cheap but currently you can't buy modular and cheap nuclear solutions if you wanted too. So you end up with multi year areva construction solutions.
Nuclear power with its current large plants is not easy on the grid either. In the UK wind was really helped because all the pumped storage build to make the 60&70's nuclear fleet cost effective.