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Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy by matthewdgreen on Thursday November 16, 2023 @07:51PM (#38297821)
The first two Swedish nuclear plants won't come online for at least 12 years, and the next eight aren't scheduled to be operational until 2045. That's 22 years in the future.

Personally I think your timeline for storage is going to prove wildly conservative (we already have 5GW installed in CA, China is building capacity exponentially.) But even if you're right: these nuclear plants are going to come online right at the moment when storage makes them economically obsolete.

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Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy by childintime on Thursday November 16, 2023 @10:23PM (#38299083)
Exactly. And their construction will have pumped 25% of the CO2 in the atmosphere they were supposed to prevent during their lifetime. Nuclear is a really bad idea if construction takes that long.
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