Roman Chervinsky, a colonel in Ukraine’s special operations forces, was integral to the brazen sabotage operation of the Russia-Germany pipeline, say people familiar with the planning.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    You absolutely made a mistake scrapping nuclear power. They’re highly economical and could bankrupt the entire energy sector. They produce power at like $5-15/kwhr

    • pingvenoOP
      3•1 year ago

      Nuclear isn’t just about cost. It provides excellent baseline load power, which most low carbon sources just can’t provide.

      • Sir_Osis_of_Liver
        0•1 year ago

        Vogtle ended up at roughly $13,000/kW. On shore wind globally is averaging roughly $1,300/kW. Grid-scale batteries are running roughly $3,000/kW, then add in for how much ride-through you expect to need.

        Depending on local conditions, you can build out 10x as much wind capacity as you need, or various combinations of wind + solar+ batteries and still end up less expensive and with a faster deployment time than nuclear.

    • Sir_Osis_of_Liver
      3•1 year ago

      Lol, no. Électricité de France is being re-nationalized by the French government due to their terrible financials. Areva/Framatome needed cash injections to avoid creditor protection. Westinghouse did have to file for creditor protection and almost took down parent company Toshiba, but they were sold off at a loss to a private equity firm.

      Nuclear only looks good on an operational basis. Once you add in construction and refurbishment/decommissioning costs, it looks far worse.