Nuclear emphatically can provide enough scaling to follow the broad diurnal solar cycle and the duck curve. > Historically, nuclear power plants were built as

Nuclear emphatically can provide enough scaling to follow the broad diurnal solar cycle and the duck curve. > Historically, nuclear power plants were built as baseload plants, without load following capability to keep the design simple. Their startup or shutdown took many hours as they were designed to operate at maximum power, and heating up steam generators to the desired temperature took time.[2] > Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range with 5%/minute slope. Nuclear power plants in France and in Germany operate in load-following mode and so participate in the primary and secondary frequency control. Also this is what we are capable of now. Imagine what we could do with advances in thermal storage. Nuclear has one huge advantage over other power sources: you can simply throw more power at the problem. E2E efficiency is less of a factor when you have excess capacity you can't otherwise do anything with. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#Nuclear_power_plants https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_following_power_plant#N...