I mean, the same exact argument can be made for public transportation (e.g. subway/rail) construction in the US. It's too expensive to be realistic! Well, sur

I mean, the same exact argument can be made for public transportation (e.g. subway/rail) construction in the US. It's too expensive to be realistic! Well, sure. But why is it that expensive? It's expensive because we decided it to be so. If it became an existential problem for society you would see the cost per mile of rail plummet 10x or more. The same goes for nuclear. The expensive bits are almost all societal constructs. Much like all large projects in the developed world. Once the shit hits the fan so to speak, those costs tend to mysteriously evaporate and society magically gets stuff done in record time. See: historical shifts to wartime production. If your only argument against nuclear is cost, I'm afraid it's not a very compelling one to me. Now, renewables may surprise me and somehow we crack the storage problem. But I will continue to posit nuclear power plants are the best grid-scale battery tech we've yet to invent. I say this due to the costs. Not the monetary costs, but the return on energy invested cost which is really the only thing that will end up mattering in the end.