> 100% nuclear is not economical or practical. Nuclear is poorly suited to regular spikes and short-term load balancing. While using only nuclear power plants

> 100% nuclear is not economical or practical. Nuclear is poorly suited to regular spikes and short-term load balancing. While using only nuclear power plants for all the domestic electricity generation of a country doesn't make much sense, some reactor design, notably French ones (in particular composition of the control rods and their placement in the core, among other things) allows for very flexible control over power output. [0] EDF makes the surprising claim that their plants are as flexible as gas plants, which are generally considered as the go-to method of load following. Also curious to why 100% nuclear wouldn't be economical, wouldn't this hypothetical situation benefits from the economy of scale and grid management simplification? [0] https://hal-edf.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01977209/document https://hal-edf.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01977209/document (PDF)