[bosie]

Nuclear helps to reliably produce electricity when there is a peak demand or renewable has a problem producing (no sun, draught)

[ktzar]

Nuclear doesn't scale quickly. It already adapts from 4GW to 7GW in Spain, but it does it slowly and ahead of weather conditions. What is needed is more co-located battery storage, and more gravity (solid or water) storage.

[jorvi]

Nuclear is never meant to scale, you want to run the plant at 100% as much as possible to recoup costs. It is baseload power and you deal with peaks using peaker plants and batteries.

[binary132]

Maybe I don’t understand the requirement, but can’t a constant-rate supply provide stored power for peak demand and support baseline consumption off-peak?

[jahnu]

There is no need for backup fossil power to account for more than a few percent of electricity production in the medium term.

https://www.volts.wtf/p/what-the-sun-isnt-always-shining

[helboi4]

Nuclear is different to fossil fuel power. It comes from a renewable source. It is bad only because it produced waste, but we're working towards solving this issue.

[ta1243]

So you need nuclear to be scaled to the maximum demand?

[raphaelj]

People always forget that a mostly nuclear grid also require a some kind of storage or demand scalability.

[oneshtein]

Nuclear bomb can produce peaks of energy, while nuclear stations are good for base load only due to safety reasons.

[nozzlegear]

A nuclear power plant does not suddenly give you the capacity to create a nuclear bomb.