That's also true, partially driven by a lot of hurdles and time spent fighting for approval due to the anti-nuclear push due to the things I mentioned, but it is also just expensive to build in the US because our labor and land is pretty expensive too.
replyIs there a study that pinpoints which nuclear regulations are unnecessary and how much they add to the LCoE of a nuke plant?
replyI'm thinking more of the cycles of community approval that can drag on and delay the project rather than individual ongoing regulations.
replyWhy are these rounds of community consultation allowed? Surely legislatures ought to be able to pre-empt them.
replyDisallow community input just for building nuclear in a community, or also disallow community input for all public and private zoning, and infrastructure proposals, transit proposals, etc?
replyI mean concrete is also just really expensive. A lot of the cost is labor, yes, but still.
replyAnd the price was escalating even before TMI and Chernobyl.
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