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8/28/2023 3:12:20 PM
 
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Section 4: President & Congress Subject: Nuclear Power news Msg# 1192020
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YES Seems France has been a leader in having standardized nuclear facilities, supplying 70% to 75%. That choice also produces one of the lowest electricity prices in Western Europe --.2086 Euros per kWh. The average cost of electricity in France is 18% cheaper than the EU average. By comparison Spain & Germany, prices are 43% and 55% higher than France's. Pretty significant.
The average residential U.S. electricity price in May 2023 was 16.14 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh), Maryland was 16.08 cents/kwh), but with the residential rate a bit lower. However the France rate of .2086 Euros per kWh ( 23 US cents/kwh) France also has a 31% (average) for taxes added onto their power bills. So the US comes out as lower rates. Now the politics in the US is led by greenies who often successfully object to nuclear power. Or at least cause very costly delays. So standardization seems off the table. Next nuclear here in the US will be the small modular units now in the development stages. Their size resembles a community water tank, (without the tall legs) Components can be shipped on a large 18 wheeler. These modular units have smaller nuclear cores, so the hope is for less objections to the false comparisons to nuclear bombs and their radiation. That false urban myth has hung around way too long |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: And if we ever do what the Europeans did decades ago, agree on one design and EVERYBODY uses it, we will reduce the cost of new plants by at least 50% no to mention interchangeability of parts, something we cannot do now. |
