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Re:To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed) by jcrawfordor on Thursday December 22, 2016 @11:05AM (#13238146)
Nuclear plants require appreciable scheduled downtime for refueling and other maintenance operations. Not an order of magnitude difference or anything, but I would bump up your required nuclear plant count by at least 15% to account for this.

On the other hand, I would expect repeated installation of the same AP-1000 model to reduce in cost over time, so that will help out a bit - although R&D into more interesting plant designs may bring prices up as well.

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