Andy Champ wrote:
Bruce wrote:

But that was also a barefaced lie, as nuclear power in the UK has
always cost more per kWh than electricity produced commercially from
any fossil fuel.
That's an accountant's result, because the nuclear industry has to
factor in the cost of decommissioning but the fossil fuel industries
don't have to factor in the cost of cleaning up the CO2 in the atmosphere.


And it's actually not true, not in the case of Sizewell at least. Early
reactors were of course primarily designed to make plutonium, not
electricity. That was a neat way of getting rid of the waste heat and
spinning them as useful.

Current generating costs are cost competitive with carbon fuel.

see

http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/cnf_sectionC.htm#n


Basically, a good reactor operating at a decent load factor is well
clear of the competition in terms of overall cost - and that graph is
2002 figures, when the global gas market was still relatively cheap.

AND it includes decommissioning.


I guess there wasn't room at the top of the graph for windpower..


Andy