If the debacle in South Carolina is any indication, new-build nuclear is very very challenging to implement in the US. The fact is wholesale electricity market prices are going down all the time,...
If the debacle in South Carolina is any indication, new-build nuclear is very very challenging to implement in the US. The fact is wholesale electricity market prices are going down all the time, due to cheaper electrons via natural gas, solar, and wind. This is killing coal and any new-build nuclear, as the start-up costs and man-power and political will it takes to build nuclear is massive. I am also unclear how a jobs/progressive legislation that is about installing tons of renewables would actually include nuclear regulations...Why not just have a separate line of bills about nuclear, fast tracking newer generation designs? I feel the green new deal is a lot about mass employment in the renewables industry, those are decently paying jobs that would be contributing to decarbonization, a win-win.
If the debacle in South Carolina is any indication, new-build nuclear is very very challenging to implement in the US. The fact is wholesale electricity market prices are going down all the time, due to cheaper electrons via natural gas, solar, and wind. This is killing coal and any new-build nuclear, as the start-up costs and man-power and political will it takes to build nuclear is massive. I am also unclear how a jobs/progressive legislation that is about installing tons of renewables would actually include nuclear regulations...Why not just have a separate line of bills about nuclear, fast tracking newer generation designs? I feel the green new deal is a lot about mass employment in the renewables industry, those are decently paying jobs that would be contributing to decarbonization, a win-win.