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by troupo 39 days ago
> No, nuclear is terrible for covering seasonality,

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How is nuclear bad at covering the seasonality of, for example, winter in the Nordics?

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It's best for covering a constant demand, not a seasonal component of demand.

If renewables grow to the point where there is no remaining near-constant unmet demand, nuclear has no place at all.