[chris222]

Renewables plus storage is already cheaper than Nuclear. It also is safer and much faster to build.

There are some next generation reactor designs that are worth investment but for immediate generation capacity wind and solar is much better.

[fdschoeneman]

That seems like a circular argument. Solar and storage are cheaper because of massive subsidies, they don't adequately account for externalities like the environmental impact of lithium mining, and benefit from streamlined zoning and aggressive variances. Nuclear is expensive and takes a long time to stand up at least in part because the state doesn't favor it.

The state can absolutely reduce costs and speed up plant construction in a way that is safe, and which is less vulnerable to bad weather, and which does not create as many energy storage problems.

Pursue wind and solar at the same time if you like, but the math climate scientists claim to understand requires them to also push for an immediate and massive expansion of nuclear.

I find it suspicious that they do not, and that they never have.

[timbit42]

Where do you store solar and wind energy for when the sun is down and the wind isn't up?

[skinner927]

Chemical batteries, potential (pumped water) and kinetic (flywheel) batteries.