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Energy storage isn’t advanced enough to take traditional baseload offline.

Right now reliable baseload can be provided by renewables plus gas fired turbines for intermittent supply much cheaper than nuclear.

http://www.energyscience.org.au/BP16%20BaseLoad.pdf

If the argument is that we want nuclear power on Mars, then sure, that seems a reasonable position to take.

[0xy]

Gas-fired turbines are extremely bad for the environment.

Why would you compare nuclear, which is 100% green, to 'renewables + gas + batteries' which is far from green energy?

[nl]

Gas isn't great, but it isn't terrible (especially in a world where gas plume burn-offs is a thing).

It's much better than coal, and can be migrated to incrementally (which is much easier than the huge up front investment in nuclear).