> On the other side I've read the following articles[1][2], from people who know the industry inside out, which are less enthusiastic mainly because building ne

> On the other side I've read the following articles[1][2], from people who know the industry inside out, which are less enthusiastic mainly because building new reactors takes too much time for our climate crisis and is too expensive compared to solar/wind + batteries I ran across the statement that the entire output of the world's battery factories wouldn't hold an hour's worth of electrical usage in the US. I have no idea if this is true. But I'd rather side on the side of caution and start building more reactors now just in case the Totally Renewable Plus Storage future does not scale. If the billions spent on nuclear turns out being a sunk cost because renewables+storage does work out I would not consider it "wasted". It's simply the cost of a backup plan to help ensure we humans don't cook ourselves to death. At the very least we should stop retiring current nuclear plants. Any added renewable capacity should be used to offset shutting down fossil fuel generator plants. Once those are taken care of we can then perhaps talk about nuclear. And talking about the problems of storing nuclear waste for 10,000 years is a moot point if civilization doesn't survive the next 100.