I'm not sure if I would think densely populated western democracies are 'about the best place for nuclear you could imagine'. Currently the best place for nucl

I'm not sure if I would think densely populated western democracies are 'about the best place for nuclear you could imagine'. Currently the best place for nuclear are centrally run countries (China, ...) with a state-owned electricity sector (like France). Bonus points for a nuclear weapons industry or plans for those. > Germany shut their plants down Three nuclear powerplants are currently online in Germany. Their shutdown is planned for the end of the year. > Nuclear is the quickest path to green, and it's staring us right in our faces. That would surprise me. France builds a single nuclear reactor (the EPR at Flamanville) and is late 11 years (start now planned for 2023, instead of 2012). The reactor costs then around 20 billion Euros. Nuclear is slow to build-up and extremely expensive.