Renewals cannot produce at night, or when the wind isn’t blowing, or under various other conditions. Even a good hailstorm can take out multi-million-dollar sol

Renewals cannot produce at night, or when the wind isn’t blowing, or under various other conditions. Even a good hailstorm can take out multi-million-dollar solar installations. Nuclear is absolutely essential in providing a stopgap power source that can quickly ramp up or down as needed, yet which does not contribute to climate change. Add in non-breeder reactors that produce much less waste, Candu reactors which are pretty much meltdown-proof, and Thorium reactors that can take spent fuel from “traditional” reactors and reduce it down to almost negligible levels of radioactivity, and we will have the backup systems in place to go truly whole-hog in on renewables. We need a strong and vigorous network of recent-tech nuclear reactors in order to minimize or even eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels.