minus-squareFlareShard@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months agoThe issue is nuclear reactors become more expensive the less load they have. As we build more renewables, nuclear energy will decrease in cost efficiency as renewables and storages start handling base loads. The problem isn’t so much that it can’t work, it’s that it will not be cost efficient long term. linkfedilink
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The issue is nuclear reactors become more expensive the less load they have.
As we build more renewables, nuclear energy will decrease in cost efficiency as renewables and storages start handling base loads.
The problem isn’t so much that it can’t work, it’s that it will not be cost efficient long term.