I’m pro nuclear energy and think that people who are against are just unknowingly helping the fossil fuel industry.

  • doesn’t benefit from economies of scale.

    China has gotten construction costs and build time for 1TW reactors down to <3B and <8 years.

    Costs go down when you’ve got enough heavy forging capacity to make the reactor vessel in 1 piece.

    • ElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Do you mean 1GW reactors? There’s lots of factors that affect the price of nuclear builds (and ongoing costs) and I haven’t seen any robust costing of it.

      They’re certainly leading the field across nuclear, wind and solar.