Tell that to Chi-Coms as they build MORE coal plants— and continue to POLLUTE like all Hell.
No- you are trying put the US in the craphole for good. We have more coal than the rest of the world. Let us use it- it is OURS. And get back our Uranium stocks to build more nuclear plants as well. Get Rosatom to cough up what Hilary and Billy Boy allowed them to essentially TAKE through a Canadian mining pal of theirs. OUR uranium!
Speaking of Canada we should ask the Canadians very nicely for their CANDU tech it’s the cheapest on earth thst can put 1.8 cents per kWh to the plant edge. Ask the Koreans to build the plant they do it in under 5 years and for $2800 per kW why? No unions ,no lawfare and they have a Asian work ethic. That’s one fifth what the reactor in Georgia took and three times shorter in years.
CANDU require no special enrichment plants they use raw natural uranium as fuel at half the cost of PWR fuel per kWh. The USA didn’t go that way because we wanted bombs not power plants and enrichment program is for bombs the power was just to appease the dogooders. Atoms for peace none sense.
Bonus is CANDU and burn spent pwr fuel directly with a little repacking of the fuel rods. Again ask the Koreans they have done this with their pwr fuel to CANDU. This doubles the energy per fuel rod which halves the price per kWh and halves the spent fuel grams per kWh actually micrograms per kWh.
Always remember kiddies you lifetime energy consumption not just electricity but ALL energy including transportation, food production / harvesting use could fit as spent fuel in a 12oz coke can, half that volume if you double use the fuel and 5% of that volume if you reprocessed the spent fuel like France and Russia does.
The Japanese have already made small amounts of raw uranium from seawater at $300lb that’s double the current mined price but given how low fuel costs in a CANDU reactor is less than 10% of the LCOE total at the plant gate you could double the cost of raw uranium and only increase the total cost by 5% or so still cheaper than any other form of energy in a btu for btu basis. Seawater uranium if scaled up is truly renewable energy there is billions of tonnes in the oceans and more gets washed in every year from rivers more than humans could ever extract from the bulk ocean water on a yearly basis at that.