You mean "basically free" as in 10ct/kwh (the price HinkleyPointC in the UK got guaranteed). While most renewable sources on the market get guarantees in the ra

You mean "basically free" as in 10ct/kwh (the price HinkleyPointC in the UK got guaranteed). While most renewable sources on the market get guarantees in the range 2-5 ct/kwh. Even Power2gas2power seems cheaper at this point. And let's not talk how long it currently takes to build a nuclear power plant. In Europe we are currently at about 20 years for that to happen. Sure that happens partially because people oppose it but people also oppose green energy in their backyard and even coal power plants are built faster. If it is clever to shut down existing nuclear power plants (which are very often past planned life time) one can argue, but building new ones? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Timeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#...