China has started commercial operations at a new generation nuclear reactor that is the first of its kind in the world, state media said on Wednesday.
  • biber@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Depends. Right now it isnt really that impressive. Bit questionable to build new nuclear power imho.

    Just given that other power sources are so much cheaper.

    Then there is also the controversy of explicit and implicit subsidies. For instance here: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nuclear_subsidies_summary.pdf

    a report that shows historically the subsidies were enormous. Right now it seems a bit tricky to estimate - but I haven’t read the report in detail.

    Edit: sorry wanted to answer @qooqie

      • 4onen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Have you got a nice big valley with an existing water flow to donate or sell to a new hydro plant?

        Hydro is absolutely great (if you ignore local ecosystem ecological damage) but it has very significant land use requirements. These can make it difficult to build practically once you have most of the good spots filled in, so it’s incredibly difficult to price new builds of it. Some areas may be infinite cost because the land topology simply doesn’t exist. Others may have the perfect site and be relatively cheap.