Actually, nuclear plants need maintenance once in a while too and they do have outages as well. Take France for example, a lot of their reactors are offline for

Actually, nuclear plants need maintenance once in a while too and they do have outages as well. Take France for example, a lot of their reactors are offline for maintenance right now. Right in the middle of the biggest energy crisis on the continent since the oil crisis in the seventies. A lot of countries are already pretty far down the path of going carbon neutral. Mostly without building or planning to build nuclear plants. They are a lot less necessary than some nuclear proponents would have people believe. Energy storage is actually a fairly simple problem. There are at this point dozens of different ways that are being used commercially to store energy. Including of course a wide variety of battery types, pumped hydro and other gravity based systems, thermal storage, synthesizing hydrogen and other gases/liquids that can be burned later, etc. The main challenge is not storage but cheap storage. Or cheaper storage as combined generation and storage bids are fairly common these days and already way cheaper than nuclear already. Scaling the deployment of these solutions over the next few decades will drop cost further. And of course energy can also be moved around via cables over long distances. The main challenge is not just generating enough power but getting it to where it is needed. Long distance cables even out local fluctuations in solar and wind performance.