> (nuclear does also have the ability to do variable loads like these. For some reason people think it can't...). While nuclear certainty can adopt to grid dem

> (nuclear does also have the ability to do variable loads like these. For some reason people think it can't...). While nuclear certainty can adopt to grid demand quite well, if you have a good reactor. However it leads to bad utilization of your plant. For that reason, many of the next generation nuclear companies are designing their system to produce hot solar salt, like a Concentrated Solar Power Plant would. Moltex Energy for example, hopes to deploy a 1GW reactor that heats up solar salt (ie heat battery), and then us that to drive 3 CCGT (Combined Cycle Gas Turbines) that are mass produced for coal and gas plants to produce 3GW of electricity when prices are high. This is a major improvement over traditional PWR have much less heat and have to use insanely expensive bespoke steam turbines (that are also insanely huge). This is a good idea not just because it you can sell when prices are high and sell a lot, but also the nuclear island would only make a much smaller part of your total project cost, thus reducing the overall cost risk.