smashrawr t1_j5g5c93 wrote on January 22, 2023 at 7:50 PM

Reply to comment by jarrettbrown in Well, there’s always next year. by Darbo-Jenkins

It's right about where 295 starts.

smashrawr t1_j24hik6 wrote on December 29, 2022 at 4:29 PM

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.