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New metric shows renewables are 53% cheaper than nuclear power
(www.pv-magazine.com)
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Nah, can't trust these studies:
Nuclear is expensive (when measured outside China as another hexbear suggests in the comments here) because the west cannot build affordable nuclear. All solar panels come from China too, if we could import Chinese nuclear it would be competitive.
This is a really bad linear fit of the graph. If you remove the pre-2010 data for China (just 5 data points), the trend of prices in China is actually upwards or just barely neutral.
Of course, nuclear is a great baseload source. But the construction costs are real.
Linear fit or not, still about an order of magnitude below western prices
Well, yeah. That's just a given for China