France turned its whole grid nuclear in 15 years with 60s technology. The utter absurdity that has happened with nuclear energy is crazy. Its like the whole climate change disaster could have been avoided in the first place.
Nuclear is like anything else, if you build one bespoke reactor, its expensive. If you build 20 that are the same its gone end up cheap.
The problem is every country has its own government trying to build its own reactors and only have like one project going. Its like the rocket industry just 10x worse.
And the way regulation was managed after Three Mile Island was insane, and has utterly stopped nuclear innovation essentially impossible (specially new reactors) and makes nuclear building beyond expensive.
Its really a sad situation, humanity should be in the nuclear age right now. That we are still grappling with replacing coal power is beyond mind-blowing.
Nuclear is like anything else, if you build one bespoke reactor, its expensive. If you build 20 that are the same its gone end up cheap.
The problem is every country has its own government trying to build its own reactors and only have like one project going. Its like the rocket industry just 10x worse.
And the way regulation was managed after Three Mile Island was insane, and has utterly stopped nuclear innovation essentially impossible (specially new reactors) and makes nuclear building beyond expensive.
Its really a sad situation, humanity should be in the nuclear age right now. That we are still grappling with replacing coal power is beyond mind-blowing.