I don't really feel the need to shut down nuclear stuff, but my impression from the past couple of years of these discussions is that nuclear is not only super

I don't really feel the need to shut down nuclear stuff, but my impression from the past couple of years of these discussions is that nuclear is not only super costly, but logistically very hard (ignoring regulatory environment issues! Just logistics), and is just super hard to pull off. Meanwhile lots of other things have shown up, are very cheap, don't necessarily require huge water inputs, etc. France is the nuclear success story, of course! But the irony is that these power generators can only make money when used at 80-90% capacity. France's reactors don't get that high, and so they're quite a money pit. There's the argument that "losing money" generating power is fine (we don't expect to make money on libraries or streets), but it's important when people argue about regulation being the problem. The most open and willing ecosystem for nuclear power is one that exists due to massive state subsidies. Yeah lots of renewables aren't 100%, but power is power is power, and it feels like doing a bunch of easy stuff that also happens to make money for private actors (sidestepping some of the trickiness of larger gov't-funded projects) is a thing that our modern society is well oriented towards. EDIT: to be clear, if there was a huge pro-nuclear movement that showed up tomorrow that could get things done, I'd be all for it. I just like the idea of doing easy things that are accepted by wide swaths of the population rather than just sitting around lamenting that people are "being irrational" or w/e