Also look at Korean and Japanese builds that were record-breaking in terms of being on time and on budget. Nukes are hard to build the first of, but once you se

Also look at Korean and Japanese builds that were record-breaking in terms of being on time and on budget. Nukes are hard to build the first of, but once you serialize their construction, they're quite reasonable. Especially given their unique ability to produce full-time carbon-free energy. Renewables are indeed doing great but they're in an environment where the grids can handle the variability due to high-tech natural gas turbines. As penetrations increase towards 30%-50%, this gets much harder with wind and solar's 35% and 25% capacity factors (US average). You have to overbuild like crazy and then back it up, sometimes for weeks at a time, in either methane-producing reservoirs or massive chemical batteries. These costs aren't factored into renewable's price yet so it's not quite a fair comparison.