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by kragen 848 days ago
conventional fixed nuclear is even less dispatchable than coal; you need totally different plant designs to make it dispatchable. those designs do exist (all naval reactors are highly dispatchable) but they diverged from commercial nuclear power over half a century ago
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It would be interesting to know the potential cost difference between dispatchable and fixed output nuclear is more dispatchable, at least in theory.