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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by bildung on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:34AM (#18687894)
* > Actual power cost and deaths per gigawatts? Unbeatable.*

Power costs of nuclear plants seem to be on the expensive side of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

Depending on the study, it's either comparable to wind or has substantially higher costs than wind.

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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by Eddh on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:15AM (#18687982)
You can't command wind. Which makes this cost per watt comparison pointless. Need to include storage.
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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by bildung on Saturday December 15, 2018 @10:20AM (#18688657)
Those numbers obviously compare price per actually produced GWh.

Do you really think hordes of scientists around the globe do dozens of studies and have never thought about a point as trivial as this?

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