China's Nuclear Power Output Surges to 490 TWh, Closing Gap With US

What I find most notable about this chart is that at its peak the US nuclear buildout was actually faster than the current Chinese one. If we could do that 50+ years ago we should be able to do much better today.

@matthewswspence Unfortunately we won't be able to build like that anytime soon:

@matthewswspence It would have been much more steep and high without the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. Every US nuclear reactor under construction was delayed, most by 5-10 years, and over 60 were cancelled after the event.

@matthewswspence Why do you assume the current generation is better at building stuff than americans 50 y ago? Much has been lost there, and in physics also. Math talent went to finance, law, software. Masons are working poor.

@matthewswspence Too expensive and lots of government subsidies went into that, partially because it also benefitted our weapons programs.

We are subsidizing it again and public support is the highest since 3-Mile Island. But it'll be 2-4x as expensive for a while yet.

@electricfelix @matthewswspence Here's the latest (and the most precise) report on the Levelized Cost Of Energy (LCOE) of all energy resources. https://www.lazard.com/research-insights/levelized-cost-of-energyplus-lcoeplus/?_gl=1*6g94lm*_up*MQ..*_ga*MjQxNDQwOTk1LjE3ODA3MzQ5MzE.*_ga_K3JH1E8DGM*czE3ODA3MzQ5MzAkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODA3MzQ5MzAkajYwJGwwJGgw

@matthewswspence Nuclear power proliferation is not a good thing. The more common and cheap it becomes third world sh*tholes in turn start to demand them. Problem is Nuclear power inevitably means that nation will build nuclear weapons.

This is how Pakistan, India, North Korea and soon Iran

@matthewswspence Now do wind and solar 🤯

@matthewswspence You realize what happened to “cost” of nuclear since then?

@AlecStapp

@Arpe_DK @matthewswspence solar will pass coal by 2030?

@DK66902469 @ChanNgu18502948 @matthewswspence Must cost effective solution is to get below 30% coal.

@matthewswspence That happened before we were hogtied by foreign-funded anti-nuclear activists.

@matthewswspence 50 years ago, high schoolers would read the Odyssey as before graduation. Today most high schoolers can’t read past a fifth grade level. You aren’t going to fix that decay in a few short years

@AlecStapp Team USA just had our first advanced reactor go critical since the 1970s. We're supposed to have several more go critical before July 4th. Once these advanced reactors get going, that blue line is going straight to the Moon.

@AlecStapp TWh is the wrong unit. Should be a unit of power like GW/TW

@JakeAndQuake What a retarded take.

@matthewswspence We’ve just started caring too much about public opinion in infrastructure Tom and Jane are able to stop a multi billion dollar project bc they don’t like they’re scared of a little radiation

@matthewswspence Unfortunately almost everyone in America is very nearly retarded now. We aren't even close to being the same country.

@Nobodyneedstok6 @matthewswspence it's the route that every adversarial country did to eventually develop their own nukes.