Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by Moldoteck on Saturday May 02, 2026 @09:46AM (#47986383)

very little supply chain is shared with weapons, dont spread nonsense. If you want weapons it's far cheaper to have just an enrichement facility exactly for that.

And nuclear is cheap. Look at lazard estimate for existing fleet. Or open swiss data. Or even german data

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by pydry on Saturday May 02, 2026 @10:03AM (#47986500)

Nuclear costs about 5x as much as solar and wind according to Lazard. This doesnt even include catastrophe insurance (taxpayers are on the hook in the event it goes boom and there's an $800 billion fukushima style cleanup fee).

I dont think it was price or global warming that got Poland suddenly interested in 2023. They dont want to build a nuke today but if their existing nuclear umbrella suddenly gets yanked away...

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Re:Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants by Moldoteck on Saturday May 02, 2026 @10:26AM (#47986659)

You talk about new projects based on Vogtle costs. You need to look at the Lazard lcoe for existing fleet which didnt have such delays.

Fukushima cleanup could have costed much less. Jp govt wanted it to be expensive.

"They dont want to build a nuke today but if their existing nuclear umbrella suddenly gets yanked away..." - again, it's unrelated. If you want weapons you can have some secret enrichemnt facility for that. Much cheaper. Npp without enrichment are pointless anyway for weapons due to parasitic isotopes.

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