I cannot relate to the pro-nuclear position you are describing so maybe this is a cultural/country specific thing. For me at least, being pro-nuclear is part of

I cannot relate to the pro-nuclear position you are describing so maybe this is a cultural/country specific thing. For me at least, being pro-nuclear is part of a position of being pro everything-that-isn't-fossil-fuel, and pro 0-fossil-energy ASAP. On a practical level UK nuclear plants are steadily dying of old age and there are no immediate signs of maintaining the level of nuclear output let alone growing it. One of the major nuclear replacement programmes is increasingly looking like it's going to falter[0], and one of the new builds is perpetually beset with problems[1]. In recent months the UK has managed long streaks of 0 coal being burned, and the already massive level of nuclear output is part of that. As I write there is 0GW coal production, 5.6GW nuclear, 17.8GW Gas, 0.9GW wind[2]. By all means let's grow the wind output but let's grow the nuclear output at the same time. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46836647 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46836647 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_... [2] https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/ https://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/