• Kethal@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Nuclear plants cost a lot to produce but electricity from a nuclear plant sells for the same as electricity from anything else. Since many other options are cheaper to produce and maintain, nuclear is less cost efficient, not highly cost efficient as you claim. That’s why it’s not successful.

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      7 hours ago

      electricity from a nuclear plant sells for the same as electricity from anything else

      The high production capacity drives down the market rate by flooding the retail market

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        56 minutes ago

        It costs more to produce that electricy with nuclear than it does to produce it with other technology. Making lots of cost inefficient electricity is still making cost inefficient electricity.

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            28 seconds ago

            The other table has newer studies than 2015, where nuclear is not cheaper, but you’ve only pointed out the column where they found it was cheaper 10 years ago. Wind and solar have gotten cheaper to produce, and nuclear more expensive. It is not cost efficient.