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Re:Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions by matthewdgreen on Friday November 11, 2022 @12:05PM (#33563384)
Have you calculated the costs of nuclear without government subsidies? As best I understand, it’s completely unsupportable.
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Re:Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions by lettergram on Friday November 11, 2022 @02:22PM (#33565447)
It varies wildly by government and if you built at scale costs would drop dramatically as they did in the French and Russian build outs.
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Re:Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions by asadotzler on Friday November 11, 2022 @04:07PM (#33566861)
And how do you get scale when the costs are so steep? Cut US regulations to lower costs and you also give up taxpayer supported insurance caps without which no new nuclear would ever be built. It's unsolvable while wind and solar have already gotten far cheaper than nuclear.
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