A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by 2028

Re:A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by ... by pfdietz on Friday May 06, 2022 @02:05PM (#31288132)

https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/will-us-and-e... (although there is some question about whether this is comparing apples to apples.)

South Korea's costs seem to have been related to corruption. That will work until the first accident, and as long as people aren't going to jail (as they did in S. Korea.)

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Re:A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by ... by DennisP on Friday May 06, 2022 @02:29PM (#31288338)

Thanks.

South Korea isn't the only country with decent nuclear costs. See the study I linked.

US nuclear costs are related to the fact that we build reactors as occasional one-offs, throw in long political delays, and sometimes change regulations in the middle of construction. We're probably not going to change any of that, so it's good we do so well with wind and solar. But our situation is not the situation everywhere.

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Re:A first for Canada: New type of nuclear plant opening by ... by pfdietz on Saturday May 14, 2022 @06:12AM (#31376495)

Most of the other ones in Figure 12 there are France. But now France can't replicate what it did before (the EPR cost overruns have been frightful) so the validity of those earlier points is called into question. As I understand it, the accounting of those cost of that earlier buildout is sketchy, with military nuclear rolled in in a way that can't be untangled.

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