[the_why_of_y]

Base load is an outdated concept that will become less and less relevant. Nuclear energy is unsuitable as a complement to renewable energy because it takes on the order of days to start or shut down a nuclear power plant. The key requirement is dispatchable generation, which in the short term means natural gas, and in the long term various forms of energy storage.

Nuclear is acceptable as a stop-gap technology until generation is fully switched to renewables, but its days are numbered.

[StreamBright]

What scientific breakthrough made it outadated? You do not require to have a base load production?

Nuclear is the only energy type that works in space. If humanity wants to go to the stars instead of going on Facebook we need that technology. Ironically solar power is actually collecting energy produced by nuclear fusion.