$3/W capex, even if it could be achieved, is well north of the current cost for renewables. It anyway fails to address extraction cost, for which there is no pl

$3/W capex, even if it could be achieved, is well north of the current cost for renewables. It anyway fails to address extraction cost, for which there is no plausible means to match renewables' near zero cost. By the time any new nukes could be brought online, capex and opex for renewables will have fallen far, far below even their most aspirational projections.