Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Wolf_c View Post
As far as I can tell, it is missing because there is nothing to discuss: nuclear is, by far, the most expensive, and there is a hard limit to how much cheaper it can be made... which is still more expensive than all the others. After all, it has all the costs of a coal or natural gas (a turbine who takes heated water to generate electricity), plus all the extra costs associated to the reality that nuclear explosions are more difficult to deal with than coal or natural gas burning.


By the document posted above (which was commissioned by the UK), nuclear has an edge in the CO2 emissions by KWh generated. Each solar panel produces very little in isolation, so the fabrication costs are outsized for its contribution. That said, they are not that far off.

Grey Wolf
I mean, it would take quite an impressive screwup, on the order of blatantly designing the plant to be a bomb and not a plant, to get a Nuclear Explosion out of a Nuclear Power Plant. The issue with plants is that when they melt down, it releases large amounts of long lasting radiation. Not that it's going to go up like a nuke and take out the surrounding land.