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>>11906979
>While nuclear is a great source of power. It's only viable if the plant can run full open 24/7. However, because how the power grid works you need additional plants that can fire up for peak loads.
yes, agree with you there>
>Also all power plants generate power the same way, steam. So the efficiency is generally the same.
thats how the turbine is moved to create electrical power, not how the heat is generated

due to either impurities, or air intake, fossil fuel has a variable combustion efficiency
this is literally what im going to college for

>Coal has higher power requirements due to pulverizers, but nuclear has more cooling required. Also, I don't think your including the mining aspect of it. Uranium mining is highly fossil fuel dependent.
yes it is, but uranium is a very common element
and at a certain cost, it can be "mined" from regular old ocean water

startup and cool down times are problems for nuclear, that could be solved by using massive batteries to store power from low demand times for high demand times, but that is assuming that battery technology exists that can be scaled up that high, which it really cant without a huge initial cost