Most of this is being driven by renewables. Natural gas gets mentioned because its price has dropped due to fracking, but it’s not a strictly necessary part of this argument, either. Water/wind/solar solutions have undercut even the plummet in natural gas prices.
Nuclear has no place. Nobody is building it, and it’s not because regulators are blocking it. It’s also completely unnecessary.
Nobody is building it
France built the fuck out of it, 71% of their power is nuclear. Works darn well.
it’s not because regulators are blocking it
In the US, the over-regulation makes it too expensive. Every plant is bespoke instead of mass produced, with exchangable parts, personell, and knowledge.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
What do you mean nobody’s building it. Lots of countries are building it the UK’s literally just started construction on a new nuclear power plant at Hinckley.
The situation that you believe exists in the world does in fact not exist.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
en.wikipedia.org/…/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_…
You sure this is what you want to cite as a success? This story of cost and budget overruns is the norm in nuclear projects.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Stop moving the goal post, your claim was no one was building nuclear power stations, clearly they are building nuclear power stations.
In this entire thread, no one has ever made the claim that they were easy or quick to build.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
So this is about your misunderstanding of exaggeration? Obviously there’s a few projects going around the world. They’ve largely fallen into the problems above: over budget and over schedule. Consistently. France is just about the only success story.
Construction basically is at a standstill in the US. I’ve detailed elsewhere in the thread how the NRC approved several licenses years ago, but zero progress has been made. It’s easy to see why. Nuclear is a shit tier investment.