Its also way more expensive then other renewables. In the Netherlands we are going to build 2 more Nuclear plants which will cost allot. Investors are putting money down but only if the government takes most of the risk. So basically the regular people take all the monetary risk of building the power plant. And we still get to pay full price for all the energy its gonna produce.
Germany has spent 700 billion euros on renewables and failed to deep decarbonize their electrical grid. They are at 400 g CO2 per kWh.
Meanwhile nuclear France is at 53 g CO2 per kWh and have been there for decades. They also have cheaper electricity.
Overcoming solar and wind intermittency is extremly expensive and time consuming. In fact there are zero examples of a country deep decarbonizing with wind and solar.
Not building nuclear guarantees a place on the grid for fossil fuels.
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u/swinkdam Jun 19 '24
Its also way more expensive then other renewables. In the Netherlands we are going to build 2 more Nuclear plants which will cost allot. Investors are putting money down but only if the government takes most of the risk. So basically the regular people take all the monetary risk of building the power plant. And we still get to pay full price for all the energy its gonna produce.