on another sidenote, it's important to be extremely cynical about people claiming that all nuclear is being pushed to the exclusion of other things. This straw

on another sidenote, it's important to be extremely cynical about people claiming that all nuclear is being pushed to the exclusion of other things. This straw man is made of straw. I'm glad that after 40 years renewables are finally viable as a nuclear alternative... but if we just hadn't stopped building nuclear and continued building at the same pace (no learning curves assumed) we would already be done decarbonizing the grid! It takes some really special thinking to call that a grift. Instead, we are just starting to decarbonize, and with 100 gigatons of extra CO2 in the atmosphere from US emissions alone. I am glad we are un-stuck, but gee, I have a really hard time chalking up the concerted effort to kill nuclear and keep it dead as a "win."