Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
by jacquesm on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:32PM
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10MW is insanely costly, regardless. That's so small that it isn't enough to justify even the overhead of running a plant. 1GW or so is the smallest size where it starts to make sense to design a nuclear plant that has a hope of delivering electricity at a price that matches the market (and even then: usually only by subtracting decommissioning and construction costs from the equation).
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Re:Germany shuts down half of its remaining nuclear plants
by _dain_ on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:38PM
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for the plants that are being decomissioned, those costs had already been paid off! that's the whole point; the ongoing costs for these plants were low, so it is the height of derangement to shut them down at the very moment germany needs reliable low-carbon locally-sourced energy. decomissioning them is monumentally expensive and amounts to civilization-scale vandalism.