> Any new reactor type you'd build now would go online the EARLIEST 10-15 years Nuclear is a fairly solved engineering problem (it's problem is public relation

> Any new reactor type you'd build now would go online the EARLIEST 10-15 years Nuclear is a fairly solved engineering problem (it's problem is public relations and economics). If you start building a reactor today in 10-15 years it will begin producing power consistently and will continue to do so for at least it's design lifetime and probably beyond. Grid scale battery technology isn't here yet. No one has installed a battery (a grid scale battery is multiple Gwh of storage, the Tesla Australia battery is 194Mwh) with that kind of capacity. Excluding of course pumped hydro which is limited by topological factors.