"The world is currently in the process of reevaluating its past rejection of nuclear power and is increasingly starting to view it as a reliable source of power

"The world is currently in the process of reevaluating its past rejection of nuclear power and is increasingly starting to view it as a reliable source of power that allows for greater energy security." This thing only gets written on sharply pro-nuclear sources. Yes incumbent nuclear has a role in grid balancing. Sure, lets keep the lights on for say another decade. But nuclear is just being eviscerated by wind/solar and storage in LCOE, aka the metric you use to plan whether to get new power sources or keep existing ones. And there is basically no way to drop the costs in the future with current commercial designs to close the gap. Even if you started nuclear power construction, the 10 year delay is 10 years of solar/wind dropping in price (they have a LOT of runway between simple economies of scale, and solar still has the perovskite evolution to come), so nuclear projects can't even target a price to compete with (with a straight face, that is). And as usual the pro-nuclear article whines about regulations, environmental activists, and the like. Of course the rise of ACTUAL environmental sources like wind solar destroying by a huge margin the economic basis of nuclear power just raises the zealotry. They are doing the nuclear industry no good spouting all this propaganda. I want you to keep in mind that I am a LFTR/Orion nuthead, and nuclear power is really really COOL. It is my opinion that solid rod nuclear plants will go the way of the dodo, that once wind/solar have reached some degree of price stability there may be complete rethink nuclear power designs that might compete. It might take a generation of people with memories of Chernobyl, Three Mile, and TEPCO dying so the regulatory framework gets a bit more sound. Or maybe China will get a good Thorium reactor going and we have to do it out of competition (which is why there are suddenly Thorium projects cropping up again in research labs). Anyway, yeah, keep the existing plants going while we work on swapping out coal with alternative energy. But solar/wind/storage will probably come for the nuclear plants in the "soon" sense of a decade or two.