Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera...
by hef19898 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @03:54PM
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Money, at that scale at least, is pretty good at calculating business cases. And the money is on renewables, especially solar. And the solar Wp cost for modules is, with some special cause exceptions, following Moores law. Nuclear not so much, all those plants have is delays and cost over-runs.
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera...
by pfdietz on Friday December 29, 2023 @09:48AM
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The Money can see where renewables and storage are likely to be when any nuclear plant that could start to be built today would become available.
Nuclear plants have only ever been built where the customers can be forced to buy the power. No merchant nuclear plant, selling into a competitive market, has ever been built anywhere.
This nuclear plant cost ~$34 billion USD. What if Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet, and a few others just got together and built 10 or so nuclear power plants? I wonder if that could actually bring down the price to build them.