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Same costs for HPC, FV3, Polish AP1000s and EPR2s as well.

I don't see the relevance comparing with a plant that start construction over half a century ago?

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Do you want to compare maybe with barakah which was not a foak and didn't have the supply chain issues like with epr/ap1000?

You mean middle eastern labor and design that doesn’t fly with western regulations?

Sounds applicable!

Let’s first acknowledge that KHNP pulled out of all western projects except the Czech one after their settlement with Westinghouse. They don’t exist as an option.

Then let’s look at the Czech subsidies. They aren’t materially different compared to any other modern western nuclear construction.

They’ve shaved a few billion from the headline number but the project is still pure cost plus putting all construction and financial risk on the governments tab.


Barakah is Korean design partly based on Westinghouse patents. That's why for Barakah they had a deal with Westinghouse just like with Czechia. The design is in line with western regulations. Labor is not that relevant for such projects. By far the biggest problems are depleted supply chain and immature design (Both EPRs and Vogtle started when their design wasn't finalized. On top, EPR suffered major design changes for each build due to specific regulations, especially in UK)

Czechian govt subsidies were approved by EC and are pretty ok cost-wise. Even 11bn/reactor is fine considering FLA3 is 23bn. On the other hand, Germany spends on EEG alone each year almost a full equivalent of a failed FLA3. And with new transmission subsidies it's even higher. Both EEG and transmission subsidies are not subject to EC approval, unlike subsidies for nuclear

But agree with the other comment - your remarks sound rather racist


Hmm...any evidence for your weird and to be frank a bit racist claims about "middle eastern labor and design" as well as regulations?

You may not be aware of this, but the UAE is one of the richest countries in the world, on par with with the United States and ahead of Denmark and most of the European nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

The design is South Korean.

So: where is your evidence that labor/design/regulations are sub-par?




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