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Re:Nuclear power is officially a clean energy source in Colo... by rcxdude on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @07:44AM (#43555673)
>extremely cheap when amortized

Doesn't seem like that in practice. Nuclear's generally one of the most expensive per-kwh sources of energy on the grid. And nuclear-renewable diversity doesn't favor nuclear either: renewables absolutely destroy any margins nuclear might have, and both want to share the grid with storage or dispatchable fossil fuel generation like gas turbines.

Re:Nuclear power is officially a clean energy source in Colo... by dlivingston on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @12:19PM (#43558362)
Interesting, looks like I was out of date on that. Wikipedia shows the LCOE of different energy sources [0] and, while nuclear was at parity with natural gas & wind as the cheapest energy circa 2011, it has since become one of the most expensive (~2.5x solar).

Why did this happen? Why has the cost of nuclear doubled in the past decade?

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricit...