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Price wise, that's China, and most countries rightly don't want to have an ongoing absolute dependence on China for their energy.

Second best is Russia, a bunch of countries did this and now a big chunk of Europe depends on a hostile power for half of their nuclear fuel and for parts.

Third best is South Korea and they just charged Saudi Arabia $5/W with an extra $4/W in mandatory service fees (no labour included). Their plants at home are also not great reliability wise and their nuclear industry keeps getting caught forging documents.

Fourth by price or tied first by effectiveness is the US, they can't do it for under $10 and they're famously good sports about controlling other countries' energy infrastructure.

Then there's Japan and France, and they're in the news a bunch for some reason lately. Finland and UK bought the latest French model and they are going just peachy. Taishan (another EPR) was also pretty dismal for a Chinese plant, but was at least mostly on time when it started leaking.

Alternatively buy renewables which are generally below the (much smaller) budget and on time from China, South Korea, USA or many places in Europe. The whole intermittency thing is largely just a scare campaign from coal, and the emissions avoided per dollar are far better.



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