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throwaway473825today at 4:51 AM3 repliesview on HN

With hindsight, it wasn't a very good idea to shut down 6 of 12 nuclear reactors. Still much better than the situation in Germany, but that's a very low bar.

It will be interesting to see how the Rolls-Royce SMR project works out. Since it appears to be impossible to build anything cheaply in the UK, this will be the real test.


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notTooFarGonetoday at 6:55 AM

Yeah please send some electricity to Germany it's so horrible here :'(

mitxelatoday at 6:16 AM

There's a simpler solution, stop letting the AI turn everything into paperclips

londons_exploretoday at 5:31 AM

> Since it appears to be impossible to build anything cheaply in the UK

The solution is to build nuclear power stations on ships in China, then sail them to the UK and plug them in.

If power prices elsewhere in the world become advantageous, sail them elsewhere and plug them in there.

You still have the interconnection costs, but seaside places sometimes have high voltage connections for existing or historic power plants (who themselves are water cooled)

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