Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: Never saw a nuke that came in on schedule and under budget. But 80 years > of close to 2 GW will charge lots of EVs. >
True. But for the same amount of money we could have bought ~11 GW of solar panels, which would have charged a lot more EVs. See: https://www.lazard.com/media/451905/lazards-levelized-cost-of-energy-version-150-vf.pdf The power companies are putting their money on solar and wind, because they are now cheaper than anything else. See: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50818 Nuclear power is obsolete. It is too expensive. It may get cheaper, but other sources will get even cheaper, even faster. Once a technology falls behind it seldom catches up again. A totally different approach, such as pebble bed reactors, might be competitive.
