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Re:Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched by Krasnol on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:52PM (#26347295)
That doesn't make sense. If you feel pressure by time, nuclear is and never was your solution. It takes too long to construct. By the time a single reactor is build, renewables will jump several development steps.
Re:Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched by Hammershaft on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:30PM (#26347842)
That's fantastic but unfortunately there is no viable grid storage close to being capable of actually utilizing renewables for the majority of power all over the world.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/batteries-need-t...

Are we really going to risk human civilization on the immediate invention and mass fabrication of new storage technologies orders of magnitude more efficient then what we have?

Re:Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched by drran on Thursday March 04, 2021 @04:35PM (#26348710)
Massive energy storage can^W will be built in fraction of time needed to build and then demolish a nuclear power plant.
Re:Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched by addicted on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:40PM (#26347965)
Well, let’s get to 30-40% solar/wind before we start worrrying about grids that cannot accept majority renewable.

And guess what, at that point maybe some of the newer, safer, and cheaper nuclear designs would have been proven so the nuclear plays we build then for the next few decades are better than the ones we would build right now.

Re:Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched by saalweachter on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:57PM (#26348201)
> By the time a single reactor is build, renewables will jump several development steps.

We can build more than one nuclear reactor at a time, you know.

Re:Nuclear power must be well regulated, not ditched by Krasnol on Friday March 05, 2021 @01:28AM (#26353515)
How does that change something the amount of time it takes to build each of them?

If you start now, it'll still take you almost a decade (or maybe it even will be a decade. You never know with NPPs because they always take longer and cost more than projected) and in that decade renewables will jump generations of development. In the end you just wasted money which could have been invested into true clean energy which is still improving fast.