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to11mtmyesterday at 8:33 PM0 repliesview on HN

Nuclear, FBOW, has one big advantage.

Namely, It's very easy to 'design to load' where you don't need to worry about the next shipment of Coal, or an extended weather event causing excessive cloud cover and depleting your reserves.

Heck, even as far as compared to LPG, you don't have to worry as much about disruptions or possible cost shifts around LPG supply.

Yes, I'm possibly tongue-in-cheek handwaving specific types of 'weather events' here and potential impacts, i.e. Tsunamis... OTOH it's a lot easier in current gen designs to make something that would have minimal risk for something, say, in the middle of nowhere Texas.