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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by preisschild on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:57AM (#33966327)
Unfortunately 100% renewable advocates just throw LCOE numbers around even though LCOE doesn't account for storage at all.

Levelized Full System Costs of Electricity (LFSCOE) does include storage and suddenly nuclear fission gets a lot more competitive:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4028640

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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by trashtester on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @05:39AM (#33967002)
Precisely this. Do they have similar numbers available for Korea?
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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by preisschild on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:19AM (#34037023)
Couldn't find any yet, but I'm curious as well. APR-1400 business is booming.
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