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B-BUT NUCLEAR IS TOO EXPENSIVE

Whenever someone tells you Nuclear Power plants cost too much to construct, remember they are devising these costs from US Nuclear Power Plants who’s construction is wrapped in layers of red tape implemented by radical anti-nuclear boomers 30 years ago and maintained by renewables advocates, don’t believe me? France has managed to keep their Plant construction cheap over the decades compared to the US, where construction costs 60% more, in other parts of the world South Korea has even managed to bring down construction costs. Even so, despite the initial price, Nuclear has been proven and continues to provide cheap, reliable green energy, France is a prime example of this with some of the cheapest electricity in Europe behind Eastern European countries who heavily use fossil fuels.
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/kim-d2/

>>11057380
Unfortunately electricity grids across the world for the last 100 years have been designed for the flow of electricity one way, from Plant to house, and suddenly we want to switch it around and make a cluster fuck of an electricity distribution network, how much time and money would that need in an already expensive form of generation that neets Batteries and now grid overhaul?
>>11057382
>Is France's energy affordable?

Absolutely, so much so that they are the largest energy exporter in Europe, and now they are propping up Germany's shambles of an electricity grid.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/renewables-briefly-cover-100-germanys-power-demand-2nd-time/french-export-cheap-nuclear-power-germany-could-surge

>Germany's expensive power comes from phasing out nuclear reactors before they paid for themselves

Thanks for admitting the superiority of Nuclear

> France on the other hand has been coasting on the same infrastructure for 20 years, and even then it's much more expensive than power in the US.

You are of course completely ignoring the fact the US relies heavily on fossil fuels in their energy mix, you are comparing apples to oranges.

>Which can't even keep existing power plants open without subsidies.

What subsidies? And even so how is it that with Nuclear and Renewables receiving subsidies Nuclear proves to be the most economical efficient of the two?