That’s the cost of around 20 GW in wind turbines btw.
A nuthead will still tell you that wind is no equivalent because of missing winds.
You might have to factor PV and batteries in to make a even better point.
Let’s see if those nuclear fanboys are showing up in this thread
I am a nuclear fanboy, because it is a clean and safe form of energy. But the EPR costs and building time are a tragedy for the entire sector and I have no problem in admitting that. But there are good third generation reactor like the hitachi abwr that are fast to build (less the 48 months) and relatively cheap (less than 5 billions).
The real problem is the amount of safety changes required to gen3 design after Fukushima (that was a gen2 reactor that suffered the worst earthquake and tsunami ever in the history of Japan and caused maybe a 1 single death after 4 years, just to put things in prospective).
But this is a problem in general for European nuclear. An APR-1400 costs 4.5 billion in Korea and 9 billions in Europe.
Usually they prefer other platforms.
Nah, they are here as well and in numbers.
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Surprising absolutely nobody…
Nononono, nuclear power is cheap and safe!
Also, nuclear plants can’t explode!
My bad, I keep forgetting!! Thank you.
How many people have died from nuclear plant accidents? We’ve had Three Mile Island, Chernyobl and Fukushima.
Three Mile Island: No deaths or injuries.
Chernyobl: 30 during the incident, by 2008 another 19 who received a dose high enough to suffer acute radiation sydrome although 7 of those had nothing to do with cancer. Another 15 from thyroid cancer due to milk contamination.
Fukushima: 1 death
Dumb ass. The radiation cloud that went over Europe was so bad whole harvests had to be destroyed.
That’s nice but that’s still not people dying.
Yes they did
Makes you think how any of the old plants were ever built. Is it just mismanagement and corruption?
Chinas reactors are build for 3.5 billion and are more or less on time.
I beg to differ. For a start the 3.5 billion figure is for the reactor alone. The whole project was calculated to cost 8 billion and of course it got more expensive.
Well, let’s start with the obvious: Why is the second Chinese bar not burgundry?
Next: Why are specific projects listed against an average for China? That’s the cheapest trick in the book for skewing statistics. Compare specific instances against averages.
Finally: Sources? Trust us, bro!
Here’s another similar article:
https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/china-is-mass-producing-nuclear-reactors
Not to be pedantic, but Wikipedia shows US$7.5 billion for the entire plan that means 3.75 billion for each reactor that is more or less in line with what stated above. Still, 7.5 is much cheaper then 35.
Ontario, Canada is building SMRs on time and 4 reactors will cost about 15 billion.
