It's so funny every time we build a nuclear plant we say 'ooooh expensive' then by the time it's built it turns out it's ~ at the cost of gas.

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mikeyouse 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Running existing plants is about the cost of gas - building new ones is extraordinarily expensive and is something like 3x or 4x the cost of other options, even after adjusting for nuclear’s much better capacity factor.

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croes 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, let‘s ignore that construction costs

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev03wer0p2o

And the subsidies needed to keep the price "low".

That’s why France had to raise the price because even with subsidies they couldn’t cover the costs

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chickenbig 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Please no more of Stop Sizewell C's Alison Downes a.k.a. (Moira) Alison Reynolds [0] & [1], who also happens to be one of the directors of the Greenpeace Environmental Trust [2].

> That’s why France had to raise the price because even with subsidies they couldn’t cover the costs

I'm not quite sure what you meant by this. By France did you mean EDF? And which power station are you referring to?

[0] https://stopsizewellc.org/core/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/TE... page 5

[1] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/o...

[2] https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/o...

	▲	ViewTrick1002 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I'm not quite sure what you meant by this. By France did you mean EDF? And which power station are you referring to? I am not sure either. But they keep increasing the proposed subsidies for the EPR2 program, and they still haven't been able to pass them. The French government just fell due to being underwater while being completely unable to handle it. A massive handout of tax money to the nuclear industry sounds like the perfect solution!