The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US

Re:The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US by Arnt on Thursday November 18, 2021 @04:49AM (#29263789)

When you say compare you seem to mean cost-wise. My answer is that its cost is known, with no large downsides or unknown costs to be dealt with later.

Vogtle 3&4 are American plants. I don't follow the news there closely. The last I read was that the long-term storage facility at Yucca Mountain was cancelled. No no replacement or alternative in the reports I read. Did I miss anything? Has a plan for how to store the waste been formulated, perhaps even a cost estimated? How are insurance costs to cover liability costs in case of accident estimated?

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Re:The $1.5B Mammoth Solar Farm Will Be the Largest in the US by credit_guy on Thursday November 18, 2021 @08:10AM (#29264982)

Waste: on site storage. After the plant decommission, the Department of Energy has the responsibility of finding a long-term solution. The cost for the long term solution was prepaid in the form of the Nuclear Waste Fund [1], which currently has about $45 BN. The Yucca Mountain was indeed de facto cancelled, but in May this year (2021) the Biden administration stated that it will announce a new disposal plan in the coming months [2].

Insurance: currently nuclear power plants are obligated by law to buy insurance. The current scheme covers liabilities up to $13 BN [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Waste_Policy_Act#Nucle...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/escape-from-yucca-mountain-bide...

[3] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/n...

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