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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by zo1 on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:03AM (#13237634)
>"Maybe you will allow a nuclear plant in your backyard but most people already have a problem with wind power."

I don't understand. Why can't we put these things in the absolute middle of nowhere? Workers live on-site and you don't turn the camp into some sort of "work town". Problem solved, unless I'm missing something?

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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by nine_k on Thursday December 22, 2016 @10:33AM (#13237871)
Transmission of electricity is not free, you have to build and maintain a high-power transmission line, and also waste some of the power for transmission inefficiency.

Getting people live in a work camp, transport them to and fro, and otherwise compensate them for their strange living conditions takes money, too.

This may be a significant fraction of operation cost, even if the power at the generator's output connectors is produced cheaply. More expensive -> less competitive.

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