Czech Republic plans $19 billion nuclear expansion to double output and end fossil fuel reliance

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/czech-republic-plans-19-billion-052211187.html

by SscorpionN08

20 comments

  1. Different movements in the EU: the Czech Republic wants to increase the capacity of its nuclear power plants, while its neighbor, Germany, has decided to completely destroy its own.

  3. Just goes to show no good decisions come from there. Don’t know why there is no czechoslovakia anymore when they both still have similar stupid takes.

  5. Germans will complain about this decision while being secretely glad somebody else has the nuclear capacity to stabilise Germany’s shitty energy grid

  7. Only a 100% cost overrun and double the construction time later… Just have a look at all nuclear power plant constructions in the last 20 years in the Western Hemisphere. Finland, France, UK, USA, even China with the most sophisticated Supply Chain for nuclear reactors has its limits and shitty reactors.

    Let’s see how the household prices for electricity will develop. Just ask the nice people of Georgia how their energy price developed after Vogtle was built and Virgil c Summer was scrapped.

    Edit: mixed up the names of the reactors. Corrected it, but statement is the same

  8. Hillbillies from Austria are gonna shit mushroom clouds. Good.

  11. I mean hey if they want to build them, its jsut the question when they will come online. If they need 20 Years again and 100% cost overrun then its bad buisness.

  12. They will be reliant on some foreign nuclear fuel supplier. Currently it’s Russia.

  14. As a consumer I prefer to pay for a nuclear energy as it is cheaper, reliable and per my understanding also green.

  15. I love how nobody wants to discuss what an insane amount is 19 billions for the result expected even before the usual cost overruns.

  16. The absolute correct choice. The only way we will ever be able to actually get off fossil fuels is nuclear. It provides an absolutely massive amount of clean, stable power.

    Wind and solar will have a place for very specific projects (I see large scale solar deployments on job sites in the warmer months to power construction areas instead of diesel generators for instance) and some day battery storage will help wind and solar but the amount of space needed for either to match the capacity of a much smaller nuclear plant is too much to make sense to power the entire country.

  17. A lot of clowns crying about Germany in this to topic. Funny that their renewable energy production already surpassed what they got from their closed nuclear energy output in the last couple of years.

  18. >After becoming operational in the second half 2030s

    And that already tells everything. It’s not a project to end fossil fuel reliance, it’s a project so you can pretend to do something.

  20. Smart nukecels again. Tell me where does all that uranium is coming from?
    Is from your backyard or russia?

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