Nuclear power is too expensive and takes too long to build.
Renewables + storage is about 1/3 the price of nuclear and a new plant can go from proposal to delivering power in under 2 years. Nuclear takes more than 20 years.
I'd rather have 3x as much CO2 reduction per dollar 2 years from now than 1x as much 20 years from now.
Even as little as 5 years ago nuclear was a good choice. But renewables and storage have overtaken it.
> Renewables + storage is about 1/3 the price of nuclear and a new plant can go from proposal to delivering power in under 2 years
What storage that can provide the same availability and stability as a nuclear power plant? There is no such deployment today, and many of those planned are based on theoretical designs, and are thus with theoretical costs.
Renewables and storage are anti-fragile. Constantly fluctuating, their capacity to deal with interruptions is regularly tested and measured. They're also small, so any individual failure is easy to substitute.
Nuclear plants are quasi-stable. They can work properly for years, lulling their users into a false sense of security. But they do have occasional failures, resulting in massive outages.
Any chance you have anything to support renewables + storage generating the same amount of power as a nuclear power plant are 1/3 the price? Preferable I would like to see reports that include all the cost of mining and processing for the battery material as well as how the used renewables sources are going to be disposed of.
Also as you are claiming nukes are take to long to build can you provide evidence of how long it would take to build and install enough renewables to output 1GW of power at all time? You would have to have massive battery farms to do this, so those must be included too.
You claim it takes under 2 years to get a renewable up yet a quick google search returns taking between 16-20 weeks for 1MW so 1GW (average output of one reactor) would take 16 weeks * 1000 so 16000 weeks. Which is 307 years.
Basically if the funding was there we could remove the fossil fuel problem by building renewables alone - before the first new nuclear power plant was able to come online.
Renewables + storage is about 1/3 the price of nuclear and a new plant can go from proposal to delivering power in under 2 years. Nuclear takes more than 20 years.
I'd rather have 3x as much CO2 reduction per dollar 2 years from now than 1x as much 20 years from now.
Even as little as 5 years ago nuclear was a good choice. But renewables and storage have overtaken it.