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sillysaurus3 on Aug 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exploring strategies to decarbonize electricity

I wouldn't be surprised if nuclear is expensive solely because it's ostracized.

The moment it becomes unfashionable to bash it is the moment R&D can drive the cost down, as in every other area of technology.

legulere on Aug 11, 2017 | [–]

A lot of nuclear power plant costs is manual construction labor. Construction costs are continuing to rise, because the fields efficiency improvements are far below the general economy.

tertius on Aug 11, 2017 | [–]

And the moment that insane regulations are lifted.

http://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2017/08/10/the_nucle...

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