Not exact matches
So that leaves the question of proliferation, particularly as many countries in Asia begin to
build new
nuclear power plants, ranging from the United Arab Emirates to Vietnam.
So, the
nuclear solution is two decades away, and then they will risk being more expensive than alternative which will reduce costs in the four decades between now and when new
nuclear power plants will still have two decades of debt service on labor costs for
building nuclear two to three decades earlier.
As a rule of thumb, a typical new -
build reactor will generate about 1 gigawatt a year,
so it appears there are quite a few new Chinese
nuclear power plants on the drawing board.
So it's no big shock that there's only one new
nuclear power plant still being
built in the United States — or that even existing
power plants are struggling to stay competitive.
So premise of such study would be the fact that that government would waving these environmental laws and also be looking a way to streamline governmental approval, so that it's the actual construction time which is the limiting factor and not the court cases, approval process which adding all the time to building nuclear power plant
So premise of such study would be the fact that that government would waving these environmental laws and also be looking a way to streamline governmental approval,
so that it's the actual construction time which is the limiting factor and not the court cases, approval process which adding all the time to building nuclear power plant
so that it's the actual construction time which is the limiting factor and not the court cases, approval process which adding all the time to
building nuclear power plants.
The first generation of
nuclear power plants proved
so costly to
build that half of them were abandoned during construction.
The high cost of
nuclear power also explains why
so few
plants are being
built compared with a generation ago.
They clearly can not replace the electricity from their
nuclear reactors with electricity from wind and solar,
so they are
building new coal - fired
power plants and importing coal from the US: that's the «smutzig» part.
Renewable energy advocates responded that the Breakthrough findings had to be wrong because it takes
so much longer to
build a
nuclear power plant — with much of the protracted timeframes owing to construction delays — than, say, a solar or wind farm.
Given the entrenched political
power of the
nuclear industry — as reflected in the Obama administration's continued support for huge subsidies for new
nuclear, Fukushima be damned — it is possible that one or two new
nuclear power plants may be
built in the USA in the next decade or
so.
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so much that they cut the
nuclear renaissance short, perhaps before it ever takes off (given the time it takes to plan and
build a
nuclear power plant, unless that changes too).
It might have been better to keep Germany's existing
nuclear power plants operational and do a thorough safety review
so that they can be used until a transition to renewables can be done directly (without having to
build a large amount of new fossil fuel
plants).
So Australia is not going to
build nuclear power plants for $ 1,000 a kilowatt.