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@RaymondPierreL3 you are exactly correct when you say that "#CluelessPotatoHead's nuclear option is nothing but a #FossilFuel lobby trojan horse to ensure profits keep flowing into the coffers of #FossilFuelIndustry." It is no more (well, perhaps political positioning), no less.
There is no business case. Never has been, never will be.
If you had a time machine, and an existing nuclear expertise, because you were madly building nuclear weapons and nuclear submarines in the 60s, then nuclear power makes sense.
If you don't, it doesn't.
Yes, nukes can be attenuated with control rods, and shut down, but shutdowns take longer (other than emergency shutdowns) than coalers, and start-ups take much longer than coalers. They're hardly flexible.
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@RaymondPierreL3 NEM Pricing is based on the lowest price in the bid stack, required to get the necessary energy dispatched to meet the current demand (it's a forecast, but it's near enough to real time to be actual demand).
Bids are dispatched in merit order - lower bids win.
That's why you often see negative prices in the middle of the day - solar earns renewable energy certificates that have value even if they have to pay to send energy into the grid, so will bid a negative price up to the value they'll earn from the certificate.
That means that nuclear will be bidding at say $300/MWh and won't be dispatched.
They won't be price setting.
Dutton's shiny new nukes will be sitting there, dialled down as low as they go (and they don't go that low), dispatching into negative prices, so having to pay to send energy into the grid.