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Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by ViewTrick1002 on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:06PM (#38764201)
Trying to justify another attempt at nuclear in the face of Vogtle, Virgil C. Summer and NuScale is insane.

But sure, this time it will certainly be different!

Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by 7e on Monday December 25, 2023 @12:51PM (#38764537)
Humans tried to fly for thousands of years before the Wright Brothers. Things get better over time. Humans are improvement machines. So yes, I think it will be different.
Re:Much of North America may face electricity shortages star... by ViewTrick1002 on Monday December 25, 2023 @01:06PM (#38764661)
If converting entire countries electricity grids to nuclear, while failing to lower costs, is not enough, what scale do you propose? How many trillions of dollars in subsidies to give nuclear "one more chance"?

All while we have solutions, on the market, that are cheaper, faster and easier to deploy.

The costs of the French nuclear scale-up: A case of negative learning by doing

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03014...

This study does not include their most recent attempt at Flamanville.

> Construction on a new reactor, Flamanville 3, began on 4 December 2007. The new unit is an Areva European Pressurized Reactor type and is planned to have a nameplate capacity of 1,650 MWe. EDF estimated the cost at €3.3 billion and stated it would start commercial operations in 2012, after construction lasting 54 months. The latest cost estimate (July 2020) is at €19.1 billion, with commissioning planned tentatively at the end of 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...