This is definitely not my area of expertise, but I found John Platt's work on modeling the marginal cost of energy a pretty compelling counter-argument https://

This is definitely not my area of expertise, but I found John Platt's work on modeling the marginal cost of energy a pretty compelling counter-argument https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46289 https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub46289 The gist is that after ~30-40% penetration, the cost of renewables, even with storage, is no longer cheaper than natural gas. And while storage bends the curve, getting from 80% renewables to 100% without something dispatchable is very expensive. I don't think this is necessarily important for nuclear, since we could have Gas+CCS, but I have lower hopes for pure renewables+storage.