Nuclear is back on the table for a green future

Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by ncmncm on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:47PM (#31758436)

If you don't have renewables for a while, and transmission line availability flags, you import anhydrous ammonia from the tropics. So, you need only minimal over-provisioning and local storage.

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by redisman on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:40PM (#31761969)

But then you presumably need to build these extra power plants that can use that fuel?

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by pfdietz on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:24PM (#31773471)

A combined cycle powerplant is about 10% of the cost, per unit power output, of a nuclear power plant. So we could completely back up a renewable grid with CC plants and nuclear could still be much more expensive.

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by ncmncm on Saturday June 18, 2022 @01:01AM (#31787360)

And, steam turbines cost more to keep working than CC turbines. But both are very mature, meaning costs won't change.

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Re:Nuclear is back on the table for a green future by ncmncm on Thursday June 16, 2022 @02:38AM (#31763087)

We have combined-cycle turbines already. More will be built wherever they will be needed.

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