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smashrawr t1_j24hik6 wrote

Reply to comment by AlphaMetroid in Renewable energy will dominate the future energy landscape and the growth of nuclear will be limited by the fact that only 12% of historical nuclear power programs were not part of a weapons program. (History article) by EnergyTransitionNews

It's still exceedingly high to start one up and more importantly is extremely time consuming to build a plant. In terms of start up costs, routinely a new nuclear plant is quoted at 1-2B, but in a state like say South Carolina several projects have run way over budget, and have taken significantly longer than projected. It takes months to hook up renewables, it takes decades to build nuclear plants.

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