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by chucknthem 1162 days ago
It's expensive because no investment has been made to scale it up and make cheaper & safer, whereas a ton of subsidies and investment went into scaling up solar and making that cheaper over the past 2 decades.

China will probably make it cheap given the pace they're going building out nuclear plants.

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China is way more active deploying renewables than nuclear. https://www.colorado.edu/cas/2022/04/12/even-china-cannot-re...
Yep, they have massive energy demand and going full steam ahead in all energy sources.