The Truth Is Uglier Than We Thought with David Borlace
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The Cost of Nuclear Power
I'm not anti-nuclear at all. I think there's three, there's three strands and certainly it doesn't make sense to try and start building very large central infrastructure like Hinkley anymore. Every nuclear construction around the world that's in train is massively overspent and massively over time on the project, every single one. Germany started closing down perfectly serviceable nuclear power as a knee-jerk reaction after Fukushima. That was a wrong thing to do when these things are perfectly serviceable for probably another 30, 40, maybe even 50 years. And then the third strand is these small nuclear modular reactors. And China have already built one. So they're, as usual with
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