"cheap"? Nuclear is almost 600% more expensive than wind/solar. Lazard LCOE numbers. https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april-2023.pdf htt

"cheap"? Nuclear is almost 600% more expensive than wind/solar. Lazard LCOE numbers. https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april-2023.pdf https://www.lazard.com/media/2ozoovyg/lazards-lcoeplus-april... Solar PV+storage is 1/4 the cost. Look, I love nuclear as a cool concept, and admit that the regulatory barriers are unfair, but the industry simply is not cost competitive. Is regulatory barriers entirely responsible for being 6x as expensive? I doubt it. I'm guessing at best you can get down to 3x as expensive with more rational policy. Then MAYBE the next gen reactors will bring it down another 50%, but by the time anything new gen rolls out to a substantive degree, guess what solar and wind will probably drop again. Solar has perovskites on the horizon, wind has the usual economies of scale improvements, and battery storage has sodium ion in the immediate future and sulfur techs in the medium term. I say keep the current plants operating as best they can (otherwise coal will be used, or gas). And keep investing in scalable reactor technology. Best that can be done for nuclear now.