[ascar]

> It's the other way around, the actual cost of building nuclear instead of much cheaper and faster renewables causes an opportunity cost

That's under the assumption the available money, hardware and labor of ramping up solar and building nuclear plants directly competes with each other. That's a pretty strong assumption and I highly doubt there is a strong enough link between any of those three for your argument to have significant impact.

E.g. We should be able to drive rapid solar expansion with government money and subsidies while incentivcing big energy carriers to build nuclear plants.

[cycomanic]

No that's under the assumption that we have limited funding.

[ascar]

That's a non-answer to my comment. Limited funding and a available money is the same thing. The point is the funding isn't so limited that we couldn't do both as we run in other bottlenecks.