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That seems to be an okayish price for the power generated. Wind power costs about $1.5 per W installed and has a capacity factor of around 1/3, this costs around $5/W. So this reactor costs about as much to build as wind power. For wind of course you ignore storage costs, and for nuclear you ignore fuel and waste disposal related costs. I'm not sure that costing around as much as wind power will be a sufficiently strong argument to sway public opinion on the construction of nuclear power plants.



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