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Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by choeger on Monday July 05, 2021 @11:55AM (#27739209)
Modern reactors are also much more expensive and take literally decades to build. Right now the option is to choose between comparatively cheap solar and wind energy (and their immense land usage) and nuclear power plants that are decades old. If we could build modern fission reactors more cheaply and quickly and if we had the water to operate many more of them they would be an option. Right now, they are not.
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Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by xroche on Monday July 05, 2021 @12:05PM (#27739325)
> cheap solar and wind energy

You don't have a baseline energy with wind and solar, which are not on-demand. That's the big issue.

And nuclear _can_ be cheap if (and only if) funded by states, that can borrow zero-interest loans.

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Re:Canada battles more than 180 wildfires with hundreds dead... by nate_meurer on Monday July 05, 2021 @01:06PM (#27739887)
The only nuclear power plant under construction in the USA will cost nearly thirty billion dollars. That's not cheap no matter how low the interest rate.
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