Meanwhile in Germany:
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While all power plants have a one time carbon cost to build and decommission, there is a continuous carbon cost to mining nuclear fuel. I think that’s what GP was hinting at.
12 points
Nuclear fuel lasts so long in modern reactors that it’s kinda a silly point though.
What you need to be looking at is lifetime carbon costs per kWh, that’s the only real meaningful comparison.
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