A government press release, a financing conference, an academic abstract and a WEF panel. None of those links demonstrates that new nuclear is cheap or quick.
If new nuclear was cheap and quick, why are the recently proposed western subsidies tens of billions per reactor? This just doesn't add you. You realize that right?
Your own financing conference link acknowledges construction costs in the tens of billions, timelines exceeding a decade and unresolved financing.
The DOE fact sheet lists billions in government support. Does that sound cheap and quick to build?
All the links you've presented looks like an industry despereately public handouts from tax money.
But this is not surprising. The nuclear industry doesn't deliver new projects, it currently has product market fit living on tax money handouts. Presenting PowerPoints they hope to never have to flesh out the details on, since that would requrie them to admit to the costs. Just like mPower and NuScale were forced to do. The now shunned previous golden boys.
The question remains unanswered:
Poland. €100 billion. 2026. What cuts the most cumulative CO2, fastest?
> If new nuclear was cheap and quick, why are the recently proposed western subsidies tens of billions per reactor?
They aren't, and some guarantees are necessary, because VEE subsidies have dramatically distorted the markets. Even the cheapest producer cannot compete with subsidized overproduction that drives prices to zero or negative, with the government picking up the decidedly non-zero cost for just those producers that are causing the problem.
And you are projecting the reality of VEE subsidies onto nuclear.
I asked Google AI if subsidies for intermittent renewables in Germany will fall:
Total volatile renewable energy (VRE) subsidies in Germany are projected to rise significantly in the short-to-medium term (peaking around 2029 at over €22 billion), driven by falling wholesale electricity prices and legacy contract obligations.
In the long term, direct generation subsidies are legally structured to fall as older contracts expire, but the total public financial burden will likely remain high or shift into different mechanisms—such as grid infrastructure funding, battery storage incentives, and backup power plant strategies—to keep the structurally unprofitable intermittent energy system viable.
What are you even saying?
Renewable subsidies are being phased out all over the world. They aren't needed anymore.
And now you've shifted the goalposts again. First, nuclear was supposedly cheap and quick. Now it needs enormous government guarantees because renewables have somehow "distorted" the market.
So which way is it? Is new nuclear cheap and competitive, or does it need taxpayers to absorb its financial risks?
You can't have it both ways.
Why should we waste our limited resources on ruinously expensive new nuclear that won't deliver meaningful decarbonization?
The question remains unanswered:
Poland. €100 billion. 2026. What cuts the most cumulative CO2, fastest?