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Comment by ViewTrick1002

4 hours ago

The net demand curve varies 30 GW over the period you posted?

It goes 7 GW negative.

The problem with nuclear power is that about all costs are fixed. It costs 18-24 cents/kWh when running at 100% for 40 years excluding backup, transmission, final waste disposal and taxes.

Now remove any earning potential from large portions of the day coming from renewables and storage and the economics simply does not pan a out.

Are you sure with the numbers? Maybe for failed projects like Vogtle it may be true but otherwise, the cost is about 4.7ct/kwh everything included looking at swiss open data. And Goesgen didn't run at 100% CF all these years.