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The listed nuclear price is $155/MWh. But that's for baseload power, which can't replace batteries. What's needed is dispatchable or on-demand power, which costs about 3x as much for gas, I have no idea how much it inflates the price for nuclear, but the answer will be "a lot".

Nuclear in 2020 doesn't make any sense. It's far cheaper to over-provision and use storage.

We should have been building nuclear like crazy over the past 40 years. Then it could have followed a similar learning curve that renewables did and it'd still make sense today.




> The listed nuclear price is $155/MWh.

Getting the price down for nuclear construction and maintenance is important. Keep in mind that these plants were built in the 80s or earlier.

> Nuclear in 2020 doesn't make any sense. It's far cheaper to over-provision and use storage.

What storage? That's the point. You can listen to what Bill Gates said about this last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xe3BWPsBTU


The Hinckley C price is about that, and it's late.




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