Comment by AtlasBarfed

Why is this entire thread pretending that nuclear power is cost effective, even in China? Um, it's not.

Great, China builds 150 nuke plants and all need subsidization to the wazoo. Go ahead.

The future of energy competitiveness is solar and wind buildout, because cheap power wins nation state economics.

I really hope China cranks out a somewhat-competitive nuke plant on LCOE cost, but I really doubt it. But they are doing a LFTR, pebble beds, modular, etc. Meanwhile solar and wind will continue to drop every year, this year's Lazard LCOE report be damned. Perovskites are coming, and sodium ion batteries are coming, and windmills keep getting bigger and better.

The real contribution of China is dropping the cost of solar and batteries to ludicrously low levels. Nukes? Whatever, have fun. If they iron out how to make a competitive hopefully-scalable hopefully-breeding nuke plant? I'll happily eat my words.