alt Hacker NewsIt's not a shame it stagnated. It's good that it stagnated, since it wasn't competitive.
It's a shame it wasn't competitive.
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cbmuser • yesterday at 10:17 PM
Compare the average specific carbon emissions and price per kWh between Germany and France and tell me nuclear is not competitive.
Nuclear is so competitive that they had to ban it in Germany to get rid of it.
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What do you think I mean by "stagnated"?
Nuclear isn't uncompetitive due to some inherent technological reason. It's uncompetitive due to overregulation and gold plating.
Solar used to be completely uncompetitive, but improvements in technology and increases in scale made the economics work. Nuclear got kneecapped before that could have a chance of happening.