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Zigurd on April 14, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Denmark: 1,000 Megawatts Of Offshore Wind, And No ...

That's a good point that it amounts to a single nuclear reactor.

It would be interesting to compare:

Capital requirement

Insurability

Maximum damage to the environment in case of a disaster

Decommissioning costs

Maintenance costs

Construction schedule

straight_talk on April 14, 2013 [–]

Maximum damage to the environment in case of a disaster for a 1MW reactor with a lot of waste fuel stored on the site is rendering the Northern Hemisphere (where almost all such reactors are) inhabitable.

ams6110 on April 15, 2013 | [–]

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