the problem with cheaper and safer is that you are assuming there will come a point in the future where carbon-based generation will be eliminated. That date is

the problem with cheaper and safer is that you are assuming there will come a point in the future where carbon-based generation will be eliminated. That date is indeterminate and isn’t guaranteed. On the other hand is nuclear, a technology that’s well understood, expensive, over-regulated but which does not have ongoing carbon emissions. Climate change is a problem today. It was a problem yesterday and needs a solution ASAP, not at some indeterminate point in the future.