My impression is that this is a PR push, designed to avoid having to invest in renewables, and let them keep on burning gas and coal, rather than something likely to come to fruition.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    161·
    5 months ago

    Mostly:

    • New nuclear is really expensive
    • It also takes a long time to deliver
    • The new reactor examples in here consist of reactors from suppliers who haven’t done that before

    So it has the feel of a plan to promise to spend a lot of money several years from now, and get a lot of PR points today, and quietly cancel the project later.

    • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      5 months ago

      Well that is, indeed, wack. I appreciate your perspective, I can’t believe I missed the “corporations lying for money” angle. I’m usually on top of it.