The idea’s not only dumb - it’s completely commercially unviable
But I thought they were supposed to be good economic managers
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zik@aussie.zone 5 months agoNuclear power is already much more expensive than every other mainstream option, and the gap is widening every year. In twenty years time it’s going to be so much more expensive it’ll be ridiculous. No one’s going to want to buy power for several times the cost of other options.
The idea’s not only dumb - it’s completely commercially unviable.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Emmy@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Unviable, unless they subsidise their nuclear mates.
psud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Remember it’s not really about building nuclear, it’s about promising nuclear in a short enough timeframe to prevent investment in renewables, and then keeping the date moving steadily into the future until maybe 20 years later a reactor is built. It’s about giving 20 more years to coal