Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by alwa 15 days ago
I think the engineers tend to say nuclear makes much more sense than solar for baseload right? That, and “most of the cost and delay is in these obscenely overcautious regulations?”
2 comments

As of today, batteries are on par with nuclear cost. And falling.

As for the "obscenely regulations", I had read this before, but nobody can tell me what are they referring to. Because not to long ago France had a massive problem of corrosion in half their nuclear plants, and currently is having a second one (https://balkangreenenergynews.com/french-power-prices-jump-a...). It seems that "obscenely overcautious regulations" still not enough to catch leaks on time, defects that now threat with a energy crisis in France (and secondarily in Europe).

Not really, there a lot of factors making nuclear expensive apart from regulations. And is also clear that you need some regulations.