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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by cinntaile on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:15PM (#29751441)
I doubt that politics is the reason why extremely small installations like that are uneconomical. The capex per kWh would be higher and the same for the opex, maybe you can properly reduce the capex if you produce tons of them but how will you fix the opex? You'll need too many people per kWh to operate the plant and for security.
Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants by hasmanean on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:23PM (#29751534)
Current nuclear plants don’t scale down well.

There will have to be a whole new generation of plants designed to be cost effective at that scale.