Nowadays coal companies promote nukes, because a new nuke started means at least a decade of continued coal sales. They know coal is doomed, so the best they c

Nowadays coal companies promote nukes, because a new nuke started means at least a decade of continued coal sales. They know coal is doomed, so the best they can do is put off the inevitable. Solar, wind, or tidal would start displacing coal almost immediately. The nuke, furthermore, costs so much it eats budget that could have been spent on displacing much more coal than the nuke will when it is finally turned on.