And even where storage is hard, things are developing FAST. EVs are still at, what, 1% of cars on the road, and only a small percentage of dozens of transport

And even where storage is hard, things are developing FAST. EVs are still at, what, 1% of cars on the road, and only a small percentage of dozens of transport modes by air, land, sea, from single person motorcycles to busses or even container ships. Grid storage still basically is an "EV batteries on land". This is going to change as well. WHich is funny because the fundamental issue any nuclear plant has to deal with isn't the current price of alternative energy + grid storage. The REAL problem is that in ten years when the thing comes online, what will the price of alternatives be then given the cost improvement curves of the last decade? I would hazard a guess that alt energy will be half of natural gas turbine by then (and natural gas turbine is already untouchably cheaper than nuclear), and probably 2/3 the cost with functional grid storage. I believe home solar will be cheaper than grid natural gas turbine in 10 years too. And that's without carbon taxes.