So much for "Nuclear Energy Is Too Expensive."
As of 2025, one can still hear all the traditional, but delusional, objections to nuclear power, none of which stand up to scrutiny when compared to the cost of fossil fuels. This particularly true if one includes, as one must, external costs, like, say, the cost of extreme global heating. The external costs of so called "renewable energy" should, but seldom does, include the costs of redundancy, questionable and thermodynamically nonsensical belief that energy storage - usually in batteries, or worse, hydrogen - is "green." It isn't.
But what about the much ballyhooed claim that nuclear power is "too expensive" on average delivered costs, that is, what are known as "busbar costs" - the average cost when sold at the power plant?
The following graphic object is from the IEA's Real Time Electricity Tracker using the price tab:
The document is interactive at the link, one can see the price in both USD and Euros by moving the mouse over the country of interest. The color key is useful if one would rather not do that. If one blows up the screen to focus on Europe, one can see that the Busbar cost of electricity in France over the period designated is $23.55/MWh. (USD). This is the second lowest price in Europe after Spain (which has 7 nuclear reactors, but plans to phase them out to be more like Germany).
Be more like Germany...
The price electricity of officially antinuke Germany is $76.29/MWh (USD).
In the "percent talk" used to attempt to obscure how unsuccessful the reactionary scheme to obscure the inability of so called "renewable energy" to do anything about extreme global heating other than cause it to accelerate, the price of German busbar electricity is 323.78% higher than that of France.
The carbon intensities of electricity in Europe can be found, as always, at The Electricity Map, using the 12 month tab, to obtain a useful average. France, which don't burn coal, has a carbon intensity of 21 grams CO2/kWh. Germany, which does burn coal, has a carbon intensity of 247 grams CO2/kWh. Anti-nukes are, of course, spectacularly uninterested in extreme global heating, but un the "percent talk" used to attempt to obscure how unsuccessful the reactionary scheme to obscure the inability of so called "renewable energy" to do anything about said now observed extreme global heating other than cause it to accelerate, the carbon intensity of German busbar electricity is 1176% higher than that of France.
Have a nice afternoon and evening as the world burns while we all wait, like Godot, for the grand so called "renewable energy" nirvana that did not come, is not here, and frankly, won't come.