[JohnJamesRambo]

You’ve set up a false dichotomy. It isn’t either nuclear or coal. It’s other renewables like solar and wind and they are eating nuclear’s lunch because they are just better in every way. The answer is neither nuclear or coal.

[cbmuser]

> You’ve set up a false dichotomy. It isn’t either nuclear or coal.

It isn’t a false dichotomy, it is simply the truth:

> https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/WP304.pdf

Germany is phasing out nuclear with the result that their regulator has to ban coal plants from being shut down and start building new gas plants.

[adrianN]

I agree that wind and solar are the better power sources, but Nuclear is good at baseload in a way that renewables can't reproduce quite so easily. We also need to build sufficient storage eventually, probably when renewables have >60% or so marketshare for electricity.

[Wowfunhappy]

But what if it is a dichotomy? Right now, the “answer” seems like it’s going to be coal and oil and natural gas and screw the planet, so I think we need every tool we can get.