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> Firstly, it's not cheap compared to modern solar and that trend is likely to continue.

Only if you omit cost of energy storage infrastructure and grid upgrades necessary for VRE.

> Secondly, it's not a responsive source of electricity - so you can't modulate the output easily.

Repeated often by nuclear critics even though there's evidence out there of German nuclear modulating load within 24 hours.

> Fourthly, as we found last year, during heat waves rivers can run dry causing a shortage of water to cool the plants forcing them to go offline.

French powerplants did not go offline last summer, a few of them that lack sufficient cooling tower infrastructure had to eject hotter than usual water into rivers.