Then the entire world put their nuclear energy under the microscope. South Korea discovered a parts testing scam. The US demanded more tests for the AP1000 design and eventually bankrupted Toshiba (thanks Jaczko). The US industry also designed a process for responding to beyond design basis accidents: FLEX response.

With renewables all things are not equal because the materials cost is dozens of times that of nuclear (IEA, Material Efficiency in Clean Energy Transitions) and the true cost to decarbonize is many times the naive capacity of wind and solar alone (Caldiera 2018, Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind power in the United States).