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Re:Renewables remain cheapest, but cost reductions on hold by Gwypaas on Monday July 11, 2022 @07:18AM (#32054631)
> which are less accident prone.

All nuclear powerplants are cheap and free from accidents when they only exist as Powerpoint reactors. Reality has had a tendency to change that.

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Re:Renewables remain cheapest, but cost reductions on hold by defrost on Monday July 11, 2022 @07:44AM (#32054808)
Ditto all technology - Bhopal disaster, collapsed dams, Texas power grid failures, etc. etc. etc.

Not all reactor designs are Chernobyl, Fukishima killed far fewer than the Tsunami that triggered it.

Small reactors have a long less than public reactor in submarines and elsewhere and have failure modes that are less destructive than larger scale early generation nuclear plants.

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