Linglong One (ACP100) generates up to 1twh/year. $23/mwh in operational costs. At $5.5/watt ($700m) it is very reasonable for nuclear. But all of this is China. 1/3rd materials/construction costs, 1/2 financing costs. Anti-corruption by design, local and national government support supervises/ensures results. In west, we just have politically bribed oligarchist subsidy programs.

When do the death claws show up?

Well they don't do any maintenance. And considering the plant only gets built if the NRC says so, I think they'll manage. NRC doesn't fuck around. It's also not a good look to Trump's base to deregulate nuclear safety; they're historically the ones more worried about that.

texas gon blow itself the shit up

No, it’s called making an informed choice. Down in South Texas that variable rating wasn’t even an option because our energy provider doesn’t do that. So what happened? Absolutely nothing. The provider ate most of it.

Where that happened is in Dallas, where there are at least 4 separate utility providers that you can shop around for. And of those 4 they have different plans including fixed rate plans. I.e. plans where your bill wouldn’t have shot through the roof.

So it very much was a customer issue, and didn’t happen to everyone. No one was forced to chose those plans.

It's both, I believe. I know Beaumont has stupid high cancer rates from all the chemical plants and refineries. The air there smells toxic.

Modern reactors don't really melt down like the first few generations did. And even so, it would still be less radioactive waste than coal power.

Huh? There was a big freeze like a month ago in the east.

Variable rate plans are basically always bad for the consumers.

Coal power produces 100x more nuclear waste than nuclear power.

Agreed. Which is why I think anyone trying to use them is either greedy or woefully uneducated. It’s why I mentioned ARMs in my original post. People are gambling and think they’ll be able to game the system for the life of the loan and then something goes sideways. Same thing with electric.

And the event led to over 100,000 power outages in the region, most of which came back in a day or two. But that paled beside '21, which took out multiple major metro areas statewide.

You need to publish the methadology behind that number, as it's clearly bullshit manufactured by the nuclear industry to justify their business over fears of melt downs that would spread nuclear waste all around the world.

The nuclear influence agents are very active and aggressive, it has a strong effect on weak minds.

As if we can trust anything you say after that statistic you just proffered and responded with another outlandish claim when asked what methadology was used for you coal comparison.

No one forced you to defend the rich gouging working people, charging them up to a year's salary for 10 dollars of electricity. To defend that, it's incredible, typical victim blaming, borne from Fox News and their ilk campaigning against the poor, breeding outright contempt and hate for them, encouraging people to celebrate them getting hurt.

Because they are cheating them, and bullies always accuse their victims to justify abusing them. You side with the bullies, stealing tens of thousands of dollars when their wallet opened up to pay for 10 dollars worth of product, or less.

Man, someone seriously pissed in your Cheerios. I’m not defending them at all. My point since the beginning has always been that if you are trying to get away with gambling on the system. At some point you will lose. That is 100% on you. Doesn’t matter if it’s betting, ARMs, variable rate electricity, whatever.

You're more than welcome to type a few words into Google to see that I'm right.

But since you want to be spoon fed information, Here you go

You clearly have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.

You are saying the statement that the nuclear industry has aggressive influence operations online, and extensive Public Relations, to sell the country on Nuclear Power is not true?

It's not a secret, and it's not in question. They are interests connected to those getting contracts to refurbish nuclear warheads in part.

I don't even think everyone had the option of not getting a variable pricing, but even if they all did have the choice, no one would assume the companies would charge over a thousand times the going rate of electricity. How you could defend that is just astonishing. Yes it's their fault for not realizing the should choose the option that gives a flat rate, and not try to save some money using more electricity when prices are lower, as clearly the industry would fail and charge them a year's salary for a week's electricity.

It's their fault, for not realizing they were going to be gouged to a ruinous extent, after those companies failed in their duty, and that their politicians would abandon them, and have abandoned them already?

Are you serious?

Sounds like someone fell for the fossil fuel industry's propaganda about nuclear power.

It’s not really western…

That line of argument is convincing if you have shit for brains I will give you that. Go bother someone else, I'm not buying your bullshit, I know better, I don't trust you, and frankly don't even think you are arguing honestly, or necessarily on your own behalf.

Plus I asked for the methadology for your incredible claims on coal and you ignored it. If you want to keep arguing, I need that before we go any farther.

4 years to build a power plant is still fucking stupid when you could install 10x the solar and battery capacity in that time.

I don’t even think everyone has the option of not getting a variable pricing…

That’s where you’re wrong. The wholesale pricing is very much optional with a few providers, some don’t even offer it. It is not something you’re forced in to, nor is it the norm. It’s basically a plan you have to go looking for an choose.

I meant divided in half

I already provided you a link on another moronic comment of yours.

Their electrical companies don't exactly have the best record for maintenance and repairs...

Not even close to true. Nuclear waste is actually very manageable.

The US has the most amount of data centers at ~5500. Not even anywhere close to hundreds of thousands.

do i look serious?

Small means they can be cooled down quickly and easily and usually the modern ones can do it passively without needing power for these very small ones.

From Florida it is.