Perhaps it would be interesting to specify the list of countries (beyond the USA and South Korea) that, in terms of construction of nuclear plants, are reliable in terms of the standards and certifications they apply in the process.
Definitely agree with a lot of this, but it strikes me as being quite generous towards the nuclear industry as a whole.
The gas industry has hardly been without policy or regulatory headwinds over the past decades, but has successfully developed and implemented major new verticals while still building out the core business.
If regulation is their major challenges, where are the investments in PA, advocacy, comms, marketing etc to address that?
My old colleagues at CATF used to kick around ideas for a nuclear power version of Airbus: collectivize the order book so you can actually start to see these efficiency gains from multiple projects.
Here's an interesting article trying to model full system costs (probably biased towards nuclear, but still interesting):
> Our modeling found the additional costs of battery storage, referred to as “load balancing” in our report, and overbuilding and curtailment resulted in wind costing $272 per megawatt-hour (MWh) and solar costing $471 per MWh.
> We modeled the cost of the APR-1400, a South Korean reactor, and found the cost of serving load was $69 per MWh. Small modular reactors (SMRs), based on EIA cost estimates, were modeled to generate electricity for $213 per MWh if used as peaking resources and $120 per MWh if used in a baseload capacity
Perhaps it would be interesting to specify the list of countries (beyond the USA and South Korea) that, in terms of construction of nuclear plants, are reliable in terms of the standards and certifications they apply in the process.
Definitely agree with a lot of this, but it strikes me as being quite generous towards the nuclear industry as a whole.
The gas industry has hardly been without policy or regulatory headwinds over the past decades, but has successfully developed and implemented major new verticals while still building out the core business.
If regulation is their major challenges, where are the investments in PA, advocacy, comms, marketing etc to address that?
My old colleagues at CATF used to kick around ideas for a nuclear power version of Airbus: collectivize the order book so you can actually start to see these efficiency gains from multiple projects.
Here's an interesting article trying to model full system costs (probably biased towards nuclear, but still interesting):
> Our modeling found the additional costs of battery storage, referred to as “load balancing” in our report, and overbuilding and curtailment resulted in wind costing $272 per megawatt-hour (MWh) and solar costing $471 per MWh.
> We modeled the cost of the APR-1400, a South Korean reactor, and found the cost of serving load was $69 per MWh. Small modular reactors (SMRs), based on EIA cost estimates, were modeled to generate electricity for $213 per MWh if used as peaking resources and $120 per MWh if used in a baseload capacity
From https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/why-nuclear-is-cheaper-than-wind