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We need it to be cheaper, that will make it much easier to build our nuclear fleet. Solar, wind, batteries, and gas are much cheaper in the vast majority of power markets. The only way to build out nuclear is for innovation to drive down the price, or for society to come to grips with negative externalities from gas and coal.

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Batteries are not cheap. And current tech doesn't scale to the massive scale needed to fix the problem "cheap" wind and solar : unreliability.

The market has already spoken on renewables + storage vs nuclear

Where is it, then?

What I think you mean is that politicians have spoken and the market saw the open coffers and took advantage of that.

If I go to the market and ask for 240TWh of stable energy each year (Danish electricity consumption), without any carbon-based sources as backup, which technology will provide that the cheapest?

Oddly enough, electricity is 50% more expensive in windmill-rich Denmark, than nuclear and hydro-powered Sweden. One wonders what the market is trying to tell us Danes...

Could you post numbers for your claim that other energies are cheaper than nuclear? Which country are you talking about?

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