The CSIRO report appears to have cost estimates for "normal" nuclear power plants too.
reply Large scale nuclear $155-$252/MWh.
Solar PV and wind with storage $100-150/MWh.
Was the Nuscale cost estimate somehow worse than AP1000 or EPR(2)? That seems very unlikely to me given the history of those programs.
replyThe NuScale cost was what the project itself announced. And they hadn’t even started building yet. The latest reports also include large scale nuclear power.
replyI find it funny when people get outraged because all CSIRO does is use real world construction costs easily proving how unfathomably expensive new built nuclear power is.
And people might not know what the CSIRO is. They are the Australian governments research body, separated from the current political party. They aren’t some private company or political group. I don’t think you could have a more neutral and unbiased viewpoint.
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