Pretty clearly shows why there’s no future for nuclear power.

Even for filling gaps in renewables, peaker plants are getting cheaper and don’t take 15 years to build.

This is always a weird take to me because it always ignores the fact that nuclear has been screwed continuously for decades. If any other tecbology, renewable energy or not, had the same public and private blockers did it would also have no future.

Nuclear has been screwed by its own track record.

Why do you think it’s had such a wide coalition of public and private opponents?

Well that’s simply false. Its been screwed by ignorancez propaganda and fear mongering.

You clearly don’t understand the other side.

the other side is big oil

LOL. It’s “big solar” that’s eating their lunch.

yeah but I want the power to work between 4 pm and 8 am

Batteries.

Yeah, that doesn’t scale well at all. Batteries are expensive, dangerous (so lots of safety measures at scale), and consumable, which is why very few places actually try to store energy at any kind of scale.

Until we have a good, cheap way to store energy, solar will be a supplemental power source to help with peak demand in the daytime. So we’ll need something that’s reliable and inexpensive to provide power the rest of the time. For many areas, that’s coal or gas, but it could be nuclear. If people just accepted that nuclear is safe and effective, costs would come down.

the most dangerous part of nuclear power is not using enough nuclear power