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kleinbl00  ·  3169 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is your fear of radiation irrational?

...right. Externalities. Subsidies affect the price, not the cost. Gas prices are dimes per gallon in Saudi Arabia. Doesn't mean gas is magically a fraction of the cost there as it is in the US; doesn't mean gas in the US is a fraction of the cost that it is in Germany. It means that part of it is being paid by someone else. It's still being paid.

Solar is "cheaper" in China right now because China is heavily subsidizing panel development and production. They have incentive to. But once you strip away the externalities, the costs of solar are going down, in no small part because of that subsidized development. So you still have to pick where your economic boundaries are... but a rational boundary around nuclear (ignoring subsidies, including overruns) price it as very expensive.

Does that make sense to you?





hyperflare  ·  3169 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh, yeah, I get what you're saying. Thing is, energy providers will look at the price when deciding whether to build a nuclear plant or a few coal plants.

kleinbl00  ·  3169 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...and that's why there have been more nuclear power plants decommissioned than built in the last 20 years.