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Re:Nuclear Power in France by the8472 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:27PM (#28843239)
Building them in series tends to make per-unit cost come down.
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Re:Nuclear Power in France by it_citizen on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @05:15PM (#28845176)
Surprisingly, experience has shown that building more nuclear plants, even standardized, don't make them cheaper to build but more expensive.

2010: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

2020: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/why-are-nuclear-plan...

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Re:Nuclear Power in France by the8472 on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @06:10PM (#28845671)
In the 2020 article two of the 3 reasons listed are changes, regulation and design changes. So it's not really series-production of a single model.
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Re:Nuclear Power in France by _ph_ on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @02:49PM (#28843523)
Yes, that would be to expect. But to determine the feasibility and calculate possible savings with further units, one would have to finish the first of the series first.
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