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Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react... by neltnerb on Monday December 02, 2019 @11:45AM (#21684090)
Mostly that for it to matter with any urgency, we'd need to actually be building new reactors. We aren't building them, so we aren't focusing on it and are instead just ignoring the issue. It's not the best decision, but given the problems of today this seems comparatively easy. It just doesn't have much urgency compared to actually building green generation capacity and batteries at scale.
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Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react... by Accujack on Thursday December 05, 2019 @12:01PM (#21713944)
Yet. If we do start building them, they'll probably be small modular reactors instead of the giant old tech ones, and those are both faster and cheaper to build.
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Re:Canadian provinces band together to develop nuclear react... by pfdietz on Sunday December 08, 2019 @08:27AM (#21735787)
They are claimed to be cheaper to build. There is no real world evidence that they will actually be cheaper to build (per unit of power output), and they will likely be more expensive to operate (due to diseconomies of scale in staffing).

Gen III/III+ conventional reactors were also claimed to be cheaper to build. Look how that turned out.

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