[tigershark]

Nuclear is too expensive nowadays and way too slow to build. For comparison we have 368GW of nuclear power in the world (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_nuclear_r....), while just last year we added 191GW of solar power (https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/03/22/new-global-solar-capa....). Solar installations are also growing pretty quickly YoY and it won’t be many years when we’ll be installing the total energy of all the world nuclear power plants per year in solar.

[baggy_trough]

> Nuclear is too expensive nowadays and way too slow to build.

This was a policy choice and can be reversed.

[lamontcg]

It isn't. We can't build anything big and complicated without costs spiraling out of control. You're going to have to fundamentally change our management approach in this country to get cheap nuclear.

[baggy_trough]

That sounds easier than some of the other ideas on this thread.