The concept of baseline power is no longer needed. Scientists wrote about that for years now. Battery storage and smart grids are growing faster and cheaper than nuclear ever could.

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Can storage technology reach 100% coverage by 2050? Because that's the target for net-0 afaik.

If not, we should invest in something else to help us reach that goal, and Nuclear seems the most promising medium-term solution.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 11 points 4 months ago

If there was enough funding or political backing anything could get done by 2050. That's a huge amount of time. Any time someone mentions a climate goalpost like that they are pulling the cloth over your eyes

[–] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago

Greenfield nuclear is (probably) not economically relevant.

Refurbishing existing NPPs has a LCOE on-par with renewables and gives breathing room for variability issues that will otherwise be absorbed by fossil fuels until that eventual transition to storage/smart grid.

Any discussion of nuclear's costs/profitability that does not distinguish between greenfield and existing/refurbished is agendaposting since most of the costs of a NPP are upfront.