Which is the immediate solution, nuclear? Unfortunately it isn't. Solar and wind are way more immediate. Nuclear takes bloody ages to build and is too expensiv

Which is the immediate solution, nuclear? Unfortunately it isn't. Solar and wind are way more immediate. Nuclear takes bloody ages to build and is too expensive, both in building costs and in the power it delivers. It's not being built because effectively nobody wants it. * Energy companies don't want it because it's long and tricky to make it actually happen -- if you're in the business of producing power, most anything else is an easier option. * Financial entities don't want it because it's billions of dollars upfront that may not ever make a profit. * Governments don't want it because it takes ages to build, so you're signing up for investing lots of tax money into something that your successor might cancel, and that they won't see the benefits of. * Consumers don't want it because the power costs more, and if given the choice pretty much will choose to pay for something else. At this point a single nuclear plant can take a decade to build, and if you were to try to have a huge build-up, it would take much longer. Because we're talking about a small and very specialized industry. You can't just get a nuclear reactor made down the street, and there isn't factories out there with an enormous amount of unused capacity for that because that makes no business sense.