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My impression is that this is a PR push, designed to avoid having to invest in renewables, and let them keep on burning gas and coal, rather than something likely to come to fruition.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    161·
    17 hours ago

    Mostly:

    • New nuclear is really expensive
    • It also takes a long time to deliver
    • The new reactor examples in here consist of reactors from suppliers who haven’t done that before

    So it has the feel of a plan to promise to spend a lot of money several years from now, and get a lot of PR points today, and quietly cancel the project later.

    • 0x0English
      2·
      7 hours ago

      It also takes a long time to deliver

      Not that much. Do remember there’s a lot of oil money pouring into FUDing about nuclear.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
        2·
        3 hours ago

        They’re talking about 5+ years on the new nuclear in these. And they haven’t done it before, so a 30% deadline slip is realistic.

        You can put up a lot of wind and solar in that time.

        • 0x0English
          2·
          3 hours ago

          You can put up a lot of wind and solar in that time.

          Which needs a stable baseline to counteract lack of supply and/or a lot of lithium. And space.

    • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Well that is, indeed, wack. I appreciate your perspective, I can’t believe I missed the “corporations lying for money” angle. I’m usually on top of it.