Dispatble solar and wind are about 1/5 the price of new nuclear.
Dispatble solar and wind are about 1/5 the price of new nuclear.
In reality when you take all the costs into account there is no cheaper form of energy generation and there likely never will be, outside of cost decreases in Fission based nuclear itself.
Anticipating such a rapid decline is hard and a lot of people still are stuck on outdated data.
Sure China commissioned these plants in the past and will plan more, but it won't be due to cost.
you have to start paying interest on loan from first day 1 even if construction starts on 100th day and if safety committee rules some part of approved design needs to change to improve safety it's own to demolish, clean and rebuild the new parts.
The problem is not design regulations but how much difficult on purpose goverment has made it in the west to construct one.
They are still getting cheaper so there is no stopping solar.
I have seen statistics showing that solar parks currently cover less area than there are Golf courses (at least in Europe).