> I’m confused that somebody would respond “as an EE” and ignore the grid. This thread is generally talking about electricity, and give that most 'traditional'

> I’m confused that somebody would respond “as an EE” and ignore the grid. This thread is generally talking about electricity, and give that most 'traditional' methods of generation involve boiling water to make steam, there's nothing special about coal or atoms generating the heat. Dispatchability is an important element of the grid, but that is also possible with nuclear: one can keep the reactor thermally running, but have mechanisms to divert the generated steam away from the turbines and quench it. Given the up-front capex (and low marginal cost of megawatts) of nuclear this is not economically ideal, but it is not technically impossible.