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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by HyperSane on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:46PM (#33211545)
That is a terrible efficiency.
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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by pfdietz on Friday October 14, 2022 @11:50PM (#33211564)
It's acceptable as an efficiency for backing up renewables. The cheaper the input energy is, the less important efficiency is vs. the capital cost of the storage system.
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Re:The first Gen III+ Nuclear plant begins fuel loading by runarberg on Saturday October 15, 2022 @01:38PM (#33216836)
Renewables are so cheap (and getting cheaper still) that you can pretty much just swallow the cost of the reduced efficiency.
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