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==Nuclear is to0 expensive==
==Nuclear is too expensive==
'''Quotes''' from Amory Lovins,
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[https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/why-nuclear-power-is-bad-for-your-wallet-and-the-climate Bloomberg, 17 Dec 2021]:<br>
"Nuclear power is ... now stagnant. In 2020, its global capacity additions minus retirements totaled only 0.4 GW (billion watts). Renewables in contrast added 278.3 GW ...  Game over."<br>
"New plants cost 3–8x or 5–13x more per kWh than unsubsidized new solar or windpower,"<br>
"'Small Modular' or 'Advanced' reactors can’t change the outcome. Their smaller units cost less but output falls even more ... Mass production can’t bridge that huge cost gap - nor could SMRs scale before renewables have decarbonized the US grid."<br>
"Even free reactors couldn’t compete: their non-nuclear parts cost too much."<br>
"SMRs’ novel safety and proliferation issues threaten threadbare schedules and budgets, so promoters are attacking '''bedrock safety regulations'''. NRC’s proposed Part 53 would perfect long-evolving '''regulatory capture''', shifting its expert staff’s end-to-end process from specific prescriptive standards, rigorous quality control, and verified technical performance to unsupported claims, proprietary data, and political appointees’ subjective risk estimates."<br>
"Germany replaced both nuclear and coal generation with efficiency and renewables: in 2010–20, generation from lignite fell 37%, hard coal 64%, oil 52%, and nuclear 54%; gas power rose 3%; GDP rose 11% (17% pre-pandemic); power-sector CO2 fell 41%, meeting its target a year early with five percentage points to spare."<br>
 
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