[ineedasername]

Decommissioning always seemed odd absent either specific dangers or higher costs of operating than renewables. For new construction of course the costs shift dramatically, but existing plants that can continue to run would seem to provide exactly the legroom that enables more rapid expansion of renewables. Less time spent backfilling and exposure to both market and geopolitical forces of other energy sources, eg when there are disruptions of the sort going on now.

[Moldoteck]

its funny because for ren operators it's financially better if nuclear is gone and expensive gas firming is used instead which would bump merit order