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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

A coal power plant is rougly the same cost per GW as solar or wind

Incorrect.

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I agree it’s expensive, but so were solar and wind a couple decades ago. Government investment helped research, development, scaling up - imagine if that had been done in the '80s

The first commercial nuclear power plant in the USA came online in 1958. source That’s 66 years ago. If time was going to make it cheaper we would have seen that by now. Instead the most recent reactors to come online, which occurred just this year, were projected to cost $14 billion and instead are cost $31 billion! Even worst, this isn’t an entirely new nuclear power plant, its just two additional reactors at an existing operational plant. source

Nuclear just costs too much for what you get at the end.

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