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The two main US carbon markets have set record highs in 2024 as regulators on both coasts consider reforms to slash permit supply and align with steeper emissions reduction goals for 2030. Read more on czapp.com.
This is may be a feature, not a bug.
China can brute force with capital, having no labor or regulatory burden.
The US will need to side government and labor by inventing light weight alternatives—like lightweight fusion reactors—but which have intrinsically better scale beyond
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These things always seem instinctively like something that should scale very well , why would each one be quite so bespoke
India also gets it done it about as cheaply and quickly as China does. 15 years and $30B is a uniquely American problem. It seems we talk up a good game, but have greater and greater difficulty getting large projects done.
not sure if you're ready to hear about the state safety in the nuclear industry in China
Don't elect lawyers to public office. Elect scientists and educators.
People in China work for WAY less, construction safety regs are much less, and the government is fully behind the push to build standardized designs:
Meanwhile, in the US, the government is hesitant to provide more than the most limited support to nuclear (loan guarantees).
We need a great power nuclear reactor NOT nuclear weapons race. Scale pebble bed reactors. Clean cheap energy for all.
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High-speed rail development is much the same. There must be a happy medium.
(Safety standards for nuclear reactors are intense in the States. Would you be willing to live downwind of a Chinese plant?)
Hey just fyi, but we’ve approve way more than 5 reactors this century.
We’ve just only completed the 2 at Vogtle.
Here’s a few examples:
Is a 5 year completion realistic? Nevertheless, very impressive. this type of scale would never happen here even though it should.
In June Estonian parliament Riigikogu passed a resolution supporting preparations for the deployment of nuclear energy in Estonia and the creation of an appropriate legal framework for it.
These 11 reactors is only for this year’s permitting decision btw..will be more next year…large scale and continuous pipeline of projects=ongoing costs savings and technological improvements=lower costs low carbon energy for industrial and civilian usages=technological dominance
California will cover the cost to install solar panels if you live in these zips.
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No it will not be 31 Bi. It will be at least 31 Bi and obviously will be more ...
And the Chinese built Ivanhoe's copper mines in the DRC in a third of the time it would have taken western builders.
9B for VC Summer NPP here in South Carolina, which had to be shut down before it was completed!
I think nuclear power is a viable option for which I am in favor. But when I read this I can't help but think I sure hope they're not cutting corners with that price tag or this could get real ugly.
China also won’t have citizens suing it over a questionable siting decision, removal of residents, a radioactive gas leaks, or a Fukinobyl event.
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Pretty funny, isn't it?
One other difference -- after Fukushima, China banned new nukes on rivers and coasts or near populated areas.
Their nukes are in the boonies where they belong.
Otherwise speaks volumes about our low quality E&C.
Nukes are a lot of risk with no return
It’s good, then, that the US is a backwater in new generation builds. It’s basically Asia and Africa for decades now.
how safe are they going to be though?
I have no problem with nuclear energy, but a bunch of reactors built in 5 years doesn't fill me with confidence.
The only country with a serious nuclear pipeline today is China, so it's notable that their investments in renewables *dwarf* their investments in nukes.
China installed over 300 GW of solar+wind in 2023, and 1.2 GW of nuclear.
Sure but we have windmills baby. And when the wind blows, boy, do we have lots of electricity. Well, maybe not lots but it's green....ish.
Among these 11 reactors two are the same model as the one used in Vogtle 3/4. China got good at building nuclear!
Corruption is widespread in the US.
In China you can get life in prison for corruption and some big leaders have been put in jail.
There's a reason that conservative warriors like John Kennedy, Mike Pompeo, and President Trump have endorsed me to become the next US Senator from Michigan. From Day One, I'll work to secure our border, squash China, and strengthen our economy. Will you help me get there?
Can we figure out the causes for the disparities beyond generalities such as red tape, permitting, etc? Its hard to attack the problem without well defined targets.
It helps when you can work people like animals and just bury them in the reactor wall
Why does it seem like the US is losing out on innovation and a secure energy future? Is it because we are?
I'd be more confident they'd be run safely if they didn't drop rocket stages on their own country.
We will fall further and further behind the more Republicans convince the public that government is their natural enemy, suffocating our infrastructure.
The US and Europe rejecting nuclear power is an embarrassment. I’m glad China isn’t.
California will cover the cost to install solar panels if you live in these zips.
“Communist China did this wildly unpopular thing despite all reasonable and logical objections from the citizens and that’s what I want the US government to do” is not really the flex you think it is.
Let’s ask some Uighurs what they think of your position.
80% bureaucracy tax. US stop building reactors by 1980. Institution memory is eroded. Dopes control the process. Innovation in the US will be built oversea. Look at the Korean version APC 1000 (Georgia build) and the cost.
we wouldn’t need so much power if we hadn’t decided to pursue the totalitarian surveillance state.
China uses American reactor designs with the redundant safety measures as well. Maybe that's why some folks want Chinese-style top-down government here. Trudeau loves how they handle climate change.