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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by bryanlarsen on Friday September 20, 2024 @09:53PM (#41606881)
The number I heard was 8x. Solar is about 50 cents / kW, a "24 hour" solar grid is about $4/kW. But that's still about half the price of a natural gas grid and 1/5th the cost of nuclear.
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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by pona-a on Saturday September 21, 2024 @09:57AM (#41610011)
What about negative externalities? If we were to force all actors to pay for their emissions and toxic by-products, factoring the entire lifecycle into the cost, what would it look like then? If, even with that in mind, solar looses to nuclear, that would be a fairly interesting result.
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Re:Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI p... by bryanlarsen on Sunday September 22, 2024 @08:45PM (#41621376)
The total lifecycle cost of nuclear is massive - rehab'ing a nuclear plant would be well into the 10s of billions.
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