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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by bobthepanda on Sunday October 06, 2024 @04:17PM (#41759938)
France covered that by importing power from the rest of Europe. Taiwan doesn’t have that option as an island whose closest friendly neighbor is hundreds of kilometers away.
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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by Retric on Sunday October 06, 2024 @10:34PM (#41762281)
Which suggests ramping up nuclear would be problematic in the long term for them.

At the beginning you can get great uptime but eventually you face years like this: https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/IMG/pdf/wnisr2022-figure2...

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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by bobthepanda on Monday October 07, 2024 @11:59AM (#41767316)
That’s probably more of an artefact of France building exact copies of the same design within a relatively short timeframe (ten years) so they all shared the exact same design flaws and started showing their age at the same time
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Re:Taiwan Makes the World's Computer Chips. Now It's Running... by Retric on Monday October 07, 2024 @04:41PM (#41770810)
Thus ‘ramping up’ is a problem. If they want to replace 5% of their electric grid per decade with nuclear then it’s not an issue but that’s not going to solve short term issues. Go a lot faster and they trade short term problems for longer term issues.
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