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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by patall on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @06:53PM (#29657005)
- why then, if we go by jhgb's source, is France missing 52 min of electricity per year while Germany is missing 12 min? Are they stabelizing the german grid at their own disadvantage?

- are nuclear power plants cheap? Isn't Hinkley Point C guranteed 10 ct/kwh + inflation. Wasn't it the new Finnish nuclear plant that cost 11 billion Euros? What do gas power plants cost, 20 billion?

> 'which have largely prevented germany from moving away from using gas to for stoves ...'

I would like a source for that. According to [1], 91% of german house holds are using electric kitchen stoves and 7% gas. For heating, they have a larger market share but gas kitchen stoves are not really widespread.

[1] https://www.hea.de/fachwissen/kochfelder/marktdaten

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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by pjscott on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:48PM (#29657424)
> Wasn't it the new Finnish nuclear plant that cost 11 billion Euros?

Olkiluoto unit 3 is a pretty extreme outlier in construction costs. The same amount of power generation capacity from CPR1000 plants (widely used in China today) would cost closer to 2.5 billion Euros, and construction times are about 5 years.

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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by locallost on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:47AM (#29659946)
Is Vogtle in Georgia also an outlier?
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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by pjscott on Thursday December 23, 2021 @12:39PM (#29664171)
Yes, and so is the new Flamanville reactor. It's funny: out of the fifty or so commercial nuclear reactors that came online in the past decade, for some reason those still-under-construction debacles are the only ones most people have heard about.
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Re:Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of... by pyrale on Wednesday December 22, 2021 @07:17PM (#29657185)
> What do gas power plants cost?

The climate, really.

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