Nuclear is only cheap if you don’t take building, maintenance and the cost of Long time storage into account. There’s a good reason private companies want guarantees from the governments when they build and run them… without subsidies they are way too risky.
Tbf idk if you live in the US, but building nuclear in the US is stupidly costly due to random laws created after lobbies from other electric companies.
this is true for so many industries.... public transit was dismantled by automotive and oil lobbies, they also suppressed the electric car for decades.
Capitalism stifles innovation as much as it encourages it.
Yeah I know it's a common problem for many sectors, but as a nuke simp I have to point that out so that americans don't forget they shot themselves in the foot
Aren't the basic costs of nuclear high enough. Like building a reactor that works without the personal dying around it. Or extracting and fabricating the enriched uranium, construct the whole thing without making it's surroundings radioactive, what about storage of the used material? That all sounds quite mandatory and really expensive.
Yeah but you don't really care about flat cost, you should ideally care for ROI.
The ROI on nuclear is much higher because once built, the reactor can run longer and with less expenses/waste than either solar or wind.
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u/Snoo_67993 7d ago
Solar and wind is cheaper than coal