[NickM]

Because it's currently much more expensive than solar and wind, even when you factor in the costs of dealing with intermittency.

Even if public perception weren't an obstacle, and even if you didn't have to deal with waste storage, and even if building nuclear plants wasn't a glacially slow process, it just doesn't make economic sense to focus on nuclear anymore.

[mirko22]

For example, Germany is pushing for solar and wind cos Siemens is producing those and its popular cos people somehow think there are no drawbacks to them… They could have operated their nuclear plants for at least another decade of there was political will for it…

[NickM]

Continuing to operate existing nuclear plants seems like a good idea, but that’s a totally separate debate than whether we should build new ones.