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Yeah, sometimes the pro nuclear bubble feels a bit like crypto bros lol
I'm gonna be real, that's cause it's the same guys
No. It's because you guys are wrong. Nuclear is more expensive than the others only if the others get subsidies but Nuclear doesn't.
In Canada, Québec is 100% hydro, Ontario is 75% nuclear (the rest is hydro). Yet both provinces have some of the cheapest kWh rates in the western world.
That's definitely not true in any way shape or form.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/21/pro-nuclear-mp-says-labor-weaponising-csiro-report-showing-renewables-are-cheapest
In your own article it says "With existing policies wind and solar are cheaper" Yes, Nuclear is more expensive because the others are subsidized. The article seems to acknowledge that, but only applies the metrics to the price of subsidized wind farms. Unless I misinterpreted the article.
It's not a matter of subsidising. It's a matter for of approvals processes.