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Nuclear power helps bring down electricity prices by 75% in Finland (www.thenationalnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Suoko@feddit.it to c/green@lemmy.ml
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This plant caused the French company who helped building it, to go bankrupt. Gen 3 nuclear plants looks very expensive to build then. However these kind of plants do not produce any side-product which is good for producing bombs or other radioactive weapon. They have no military support then (and maybe neither government?), compared to gen 2.

https://www.wiseinternational.org/nuclear-monitor/818/french-nuclear-giant-areva-melts-down

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[โ€“] umrath@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, if you socialize all the costs around it (insurance, waste disposal for the next couple of hundred thousand years, etc.) it's really cheap. If you calculate the true costs, it's pretty much the most expensive way to generate electricity. And it's not renewable either.

[โ€“] Suoko@feddit.it -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You know we live in the west, we're rich by default and we can afford anything we want (but it's actually a poor world) #sarcasm