• Bademantel@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    That’s kind of funny. Nuclear energy is actually getting more expensive:

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    A few reasons come to mind:

    • The newer the technology, the higher the cost.
    • Each reactor and its power plant is a huge project. This makes scaling up production difficult. And please don’t start with tiny reactors. We’re not in Fallout.
    • Safety standards have risen.

    There are probably more reasons. I would of course not compare it to coal but to renewables. They’re the future. Storage will be needed but those options are also getting cheaper by the day.