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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by karamanolev on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:16PM (#33240223)
That's irrelevant to this particular discussion. I'm not talking about regular "dismantling a nuclear plant", but if 1/100 of the plants have 1000x the cleanup costs due to accidents, that changes the math. I pulled the above numbers out of my hat, they're probably wrong. I'm just adding a bit of nuance to the TCO calculation.
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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by efaref on Monday October 17, 2022 @06:42PM (#33240447)
If we're talking TCO we need to calculate the TCO of coal and gas as including the cost of the destruction of the entire planet's climate.
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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by pydry on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @06:17AM (#33245148)
Yes, we do. And, a proper TCO for all forms of energy would result in us only building solar, wind and pumped storage.
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Re:Germany extends lifetime of all 3 remaining nuclear plants by llsf on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @05:21PM (#33268085)
I was just bring a data point about dismantling. Most reactors would be extended, in US we agreed to extend to 60 years, and already some are asking to push to 80 years. Since we update and replace lots of things every over time, we end up with "newer" plant over time. Pretty much everything is new beside the pool.
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