Post #1758447

2026-04-28 22:58 UTC

more importantly to the people in charge of the spending, deploys and gets its returns faster. Nuclear you are looking a decade before it starts being operational and then another couple decades to recoup the cost. Solar can be up and running in months and recoup within a decade.

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@sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip 2026-04-29 01:29

Nuclear you are looking a decade before it starts being operational and then another couple decades to recoup the cost. By the time a new nuclear plant breaks even on the capital expenditures to build it, a competing solar plant has already been built, operated for a few decades, and been torn down/decommissioned for even newer tech. That 80-year nuclear plant has to compete with like 3 successive generations of solar plants/batteries, advanced geothermal, and maybe even commercialized fusion. Building a new nuclear plant is a decision to saddle your grandchildren with a payment plan on locked in costs of construction today.

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@Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2026-04-29 05:40

I heard of people covering the cost of solar within a year in some extreme cases during the last energy crisis.

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